by JudyJB » Sat Feb 11, 2012 6:49 pm
I flew into Guadalajara in 1997 for a conference, and I remember seeing field after field of these strange blue-gray plants from the air. Turned out they were agave plants. The plants have enormous spiked leaves, and those things in the photos are the cores. Really neat.
Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to see a tequila distillery, but they did serve us a lot of very fine tequilla, which is mostly sipped from tiny cups with no mixer. (We obliged our hosts and drank it that way.) I'd like to go back becuase it is a terrific city, but I think I will skip the tequilla next time or at least drink it mixed in something.