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	Century plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Century Plant or Maguey (Agave americana) is an agave originally from Mexico but cultivated worldwide.
		The leaves also yield fibers, known as pita, which are suitable for making rope, matting, coarse cloth and are used for embroidery of leather in a technique known as piteado.
		Both pulque and maguey fibre were important to the economy of pre-Columbian Mexico.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maguey (295 words)

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		Maguey, scientifically known as Agave cantala Roxb., of the Amaryllidaceae family, originated from Mexico and to some extent cultivated in the Philippines specifically, in Central Visayas and Northern Luzon.
		A maguey plant grows into a rosette of leaves which droops to a horizontal position when it matures.
		Maguey endures diversified climatic conditions and does not require abundant or evenly distributed rainfall.
	fida.da.gov.ph /Maguey8.html (287 words)

	El Arbol de las Maravillas: The Maguey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Hnahnu have a deep traditional knowledge of the life-cycle, characteristics and uses of the maguey and its relatives.
		The drama of the maguey, however, lies in the fact that this stem has to be cut before it flowers so that the hole left in the heart of the plant will gather the juice that is agua miel.
		Another indigenous plant related to the maguey, the lechuguilla, is processed in a similar manner.
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~labore/maguey.html (1034 words)

	Wine: Del Maguey Single Village Mezcals, on StarChefs
		Ron Cooper, the President of Del Maguey, is an artist, and is deeply involved with the art and history of the Southwest United States and Mexico.
		The Del Maguey Mezcals are entirely organic, being made exclusively from the maguey plant, without additives, and all these factors together place Del Maguey Single Village Mezcals in the high-end category, ranging from $36 to $200 in the store.
		The maguey plants used are wild and much smaller than normal because they grow inside narrow, high-altitude canyons under oak trees - like truffles - without as much sunlight as other plants receive; it takes about eight piñas to match one piña from magueys grown elsewhere.
	www.starchefs.com /wine/starspirits/html/del_maguey/del_maguey.shtml (1533 words)

	Agave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The most familiar species is Agave americana, a native of tropical America, the so-called century plant or American aloe (the maguey of Mexico).
		The number of years before flowering occurs depends on the vigour of the individual, the richness of the soil and the climate; during these years the plant is storing in its fleshy leaves the nourishment required for the effort of flowering.
		A genus of plants of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Agave.html (1014 words)

	Mezcal from Oaxaca mexico
		The magueys existing in the state of Oaxaca vary from the giant pulque maguey, maguey silvestre (wild), maguey tobala (which makes one of the rarest mezcals).
		This wild mountain maguey has a smoky fruity bouquet and traditionally it is served in partially glazed clay sipping cups.
		The most commonly used plants are the maguey espadin (sword), tepestate (horizontal), larga (long) and sometimes a larger variety of maguey azul.
	www.oaxaca-restaurants.com /mezcal.htm (750 words)

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		Mescal is the final result of distilling the trunk—or “pina” (pineapple)- of the agave mezcalero that was first cooked in an earthen oven lined with stone.
		There is a long journey between planting the maguey and a glass of mezcal.
		Then the maguey is baked in a circular earthen oven lined with stone.
	www.tasteoftx.com /bevs/mezcal/mezcal.html (811 words)

	Erowid Alcohol Vault : The Spirits of Maguey
		In the Náhuatl language of the Aztec, the Agave plant was known as metl or mexcalmetl, the latter being the origin of the word mezcal.
		Baron Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian explorer and naturalist of the early nineteenth century, described maguey as "the most useful of all the crops that nature has granted the people of North America", and Linnaeus granted it the Latin name "Agave" meaning "admirable" or "noble".
		Because of this discovery, Mayahuel was made the goddess of the maguey and is depicted by the Aztecs sitting in the middle of a maguey plant, often with a rabbit nearby.
	www.erowid.org /chemicals/alcohol/alcohol_article1.shtml (3305 words)

	Maguey Designs - Home
		The maguey (mah-gay) plant is believed by ancient Mesoamerican inhabitants to be the incarnation of the goddess Mayahuel.
		It's heart is filled with a sweet liquid "aguamiel" or "honeywater." When fermented, it yields pulque, and when distilled it produces mezcal and tequila.
		Maguey Designs draws inspiration from the maguey plant's versatility and "intoxicating" effects.
	www.magueydesigns.com (65 words)

	Pan-American Adventure: Tepotzotlan, Mexico
		The Aztecs attached such importance to the maguey, having to do with fertility, that one of their supernatural beings, Mayahuel, was pictured seated within a maguey plant, nursing a baby.
		Maguey plants are traditionally grown around the edges of crop fields, on non-crop land, and along paths and roadways.
		Zymomonas is resident on the surfaces of the maguey plant and naturally colonizes the aguamiel.
	www.newfarm.org /international/pan-am_don/sept04/pulque.shtml (1686 words)

	Del Maguey Tobala Mezcal
		Toeb means maguey plant and Bá-lá means house, therefore shade hence-the plant that grows in the shade.
		This maguey is found growing naturally only in the highest altitude, shadowed canyons.Tobalá's form is different than the maguey Espadin (Sword) or maguey Azul (Blue).
		They say their Ancestors, in times before the maguey began to be cultivated by man in lower altitude fields, always made their mezcal from this wild plant.
	www.internetwines.com /rws20567.html (210 words)

	Our Lady of Guadalupe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her blue-green mantle is said to be the color once reserved for the divine couple Ometecuhtli and Onecihuatl; [1] her belt is read as a sign of pregnancy; and a cross-shaped image symbolizing the cosmos and called nahui-ollin is said to be inscribed in the image beneath her sash.
		Yet another interpretation of the image is described by the historian William B. Taylor, who says Guadalupe was "acclaimed goddess of the maguey [cactus]" and that pulque was drunk on her feast day.
		A 1772 report is said to have described the rays of light around Guadalupe as maguey spines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe (3229 words)

	Metroactive Dining \| Oaxacan Mezcal
		Del Maguey mezcals sip the way they do because they are made according to 400 years of tradition.
		Del Maguey's village producers use 100 percent agave espidin, which is grown for eight years before coming to harvest size.
		Used as a ceremonial drink in southern Mexico, mezcal "is a crucial part of all fiestas, weddings, baptisms, funerals--it is not drunk as a cocktail or for everyday but in special circumstances," he notes, adding that elderly people often use mezcal for medicinal purposes.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.21.97/dining1-9734.html (834 words)

	05/14/01 -- High Demand for Tequila Puts Mexico's Dry Forests at Risk
		The key to preventing that may lie in a bottle of mezcal, a close cousin to tequila, which is produced in limited quantities and is gaining ground as new premium alcohol.
		Tequila is made from the juice of Agave azul, a type of maguey cactus that is grown on plantations in the state of Jalisco, Mexico.
		They pay peasant farmers a premium for magueys that grow wild in the forest and use them as a supplement for their tequila.
	www.forests.org /archive/samerica/hideteqi.htm (862 words)

	Del Maguey Crema de Mezcal
		Crema de Mezcal, is a combination of Miel de Maguey (unfermented syrup of the roast agave) and Mezcal San Luis del Rio - double distilled from 100% mature agave Espadin, produced the original, natural 400-year-old, hand-crafted way.
		As the Five day maguey roast is uncovered, the Miel of a few of the sweetest magueys are pressed out.
		Twenty percent Miel de Maguey is added to eighty percent San Luis del Rio resulting in an 80.6 proof Crema de Mezcal.
	www.internetwines.com /pr14900754.html (226 words)

	Student Life - Stepping Out: El Maguey
		El Maguey is Spanish for agave, which is a plant that happens to be the main ingredient in a staple of the Mexican diet, Tequila.
		We chose to taste the fajita, "El Maguey" which included chicken, steak, chorizo and shrimp, as well as grilled peppers and onions with a side dish of all the standard fajita fixin's.
		While everyone is an amigo at El Maguey, you're actually sitting across the street from Jesus' Walmart, undoubtedly in the heart of Middle America.
	www.studlife.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=fa1a44b7-f292-49f9-8054-2532b71f0b20 (754 words)

	In Interview with Ron Cooper of Del Maguey Single Village Mezcals, on StarChefs
		I discovered that what it takes is education, getting one person at a time to taste these elixirs; then 99% of the time, once they understand the true, ancient slow traditions and have tasted it, they become aficionados.
		Tequila is mezcal, and Del Maguey is the true mother or father of all tequilas and mezcals as it is made the sixteenth century way.
		Gary Nabhan, the ethnobotanist, has written in his most recent book that the blue agave is actually a regional clone of the maguey Espadin (sword) that we use generally in Oaxaca.
	starchefs.com /wine/starspirits/html/del_maguey/interview.shtml (1522 words)

	Agave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After development of fruit plant dies down but suckers are frequently from the base of the stem which new plants.
		The most familiar species is Agave americana a native of tropical America the century plant or American aloe (the maguey of Mexico).
		The number years before flowering occurs depends on the of the individual the richness of the and the climate; during these years the is storing in its fleshy leaves the required for the effort of flowering.
	www.freeglossary.com /Agave (873 words)

	'96 Del Maguey - Mumpsimus forum
		I found a couple dusty bottles of Del Maguey from '96, one San Luis del Rio and one Minero.
		Del Maguey has used green and clear bottles, mostly round but also had a square bottle at one time for one of the mezcals.
		From poking around the Del Maguey website, it looks like San Luis del Rio was introduced in 1995, but Minero was introduced in 1996.
	www.ianchadwick.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1767 (366 words)

	Mexico Desconocido: myths and legends Maguey and pulque, myth and legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the same way there are myths about the origin of the sun, the earth, the men and the corn, the maguey also has it's own: it is the incarnation of the goddess Mayahuel, who went into the hearth of the agave so from the plant there would flow her blood.
		About the pulque there are other stories told: it was the Tlacuache the first drunkard, who discovered the effects of the fermented aguamiel and he gave it as a present to the men, showing them how to prepare it.
		Once he was born, they recognized on him the signs that had been predicted by Hueman as the signs of the last king Toltecatl (..) announcing them that on his time the kingdom would be destroyed, which caused a lot to grief to the King, his father".
	www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx /english/cultura_y_sociedad/fiestas_y_tradiciones/detalle.cfm?idsec=15&idsub=64&idpag=58 (945 words)

	Agave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The most familiar species is Agave americana, a native oftropical America, the so-called century plant or American aloe (the maguey of Mexico).
		The number of years before flowering occurs depends on the vigour of the individual, the richnessof the soil and the climate; during these years the plant is storing in its fleshy leaves the nourishment required for the effortof flowering.
		Someof have been continuously propagated by offset since then, and do not consistently resemble any species known in nature, althoughthis may simply be due to the unnatural growing conditions in Europe.
	www.therfcc.org /agave-120032.html (694 words)

	maguey - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "maguey" at HighBeam.
		Del Maguey introduces a traditional libation made in the remote mountains of Oaxaca.
		Sacan al maguey el pulque y la vida.(Estados)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-maguey.asp (139 words)

	OK Maguey
		Mariachi and Marimba shows along with classic Mexican flavor and ambiance that you are looking for. We have it all at OK Maguey. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
		Chicken 135, beef 135, shrimp 185 or mixed 165 kabobs grilled with vegetables and served with rice and a baked potato.
		Fresh and gaint, these shrimp are flamed w/ brandy and butter, seasoned w/ garlic and onion and covered with a tropical fruit sauce.
	www.entertainment-plus.net /ok_magueyenglish.htm (250 words)

	D&M Wines and Liquors - Since 1935
		This maguey is found growing naturally only in the highest altitude, shadowed canyons.
		Del Maguey Tobala has a sweet, fruity nose, with a mango and cinnamon taste and long, extra smooth finish.
		The owners of Del Maguey had been purchasing 25 liters a year from a rare, remote, high mountain producer for their personal use.
	www.dandm.com /product_info.php?cPath=24_86&products_id=436&osCsid=d8648e84f9c077e59f5365312e938b33&cat=spirits (358 words)

	Food - Spirits \| KMOV.com \| St. Louis, MO
		Del Maguey mezcals are made from 100 percent maguey, the local name for the agave plant, and all but Tobala, "The Wild Mountain Maguey," are made from the Espadin maguey variety, not the more familiar blue agave used in the tequila-producing states.
		Tobala "The Wild Mountain Maguey" ($150 for 750 milliliters): Tobala is a rare maguey that grows wild in the mountains, and this is one wild mezcal.
		Minero ($70 for 750 milliliters): Hints of mint and grapefruit along with the smoky, honeyed aroma of baked maguey lead into a floral-tinged flavor with a hint of sweetness in the middle and bright citrus acid on the long finish.
	www.kmov.com /sharedcontent/features/food/spirits2/020505ccdrfoodelmagueyall.7725e106.html (650 words)

	Mexico Desconocido: agricultura El uso del maguey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Con Ia conquista y colonización europea Ios derivados deI maguey tuvieron un incremento, EI pulque dejó de ser una bebida ritual (quedando Iibre de restricciones para su consumo), además de recibir un impulso considerable para venderlo.
		Además, algunos pequeños empresarios intentaron industrializar Ios productos derivados deI maguey, manufacturando escobas, cepillos y Iazos.
		Actualmente Ias poblaciones indígenas y rurales continúan beneficiándose con el maguey, pero es necesario incrementar su cultivo -resolviendo problemas de erosión de Ia tierra y delimitación de áreas de siembra- al igual que Ia manufactura de distintas artesanías, entre ellas, cestos, útiles de aseo y objetos ornamentales.
	www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx /espanol/cultura_y_sociedad/actividades_economicas/detalle.cfm?idcat=3&idsec=17&idsub=81&idpag=2073 (1675 words)

	Shrine to Spirits - Mezcal
		Mezcal and tequila are Mexican spirits distilled from agaves (those spiky plants, also known as maguey).
		Mezcal (or mescal) is the generic term, tequila being a regional type of mezcal.
		Once the agave, or maguey, has reached maturity, it is harvested.
	www.users.bigpond.com /timo_nieminen/mezcal.html (703 words)

	Congas by Banda Maguey: Song Music Downloads
		Sorry, at this time no downloads have been found for "Congas" on album 20 Maguey.
		Check the albums tab for other downloads from Banda Maguey.
		Sorry, at this time no streams have been found for "Congas" on album 20 Maguey.
	www.mp3.com /tracks/5044888/dl_streams.html (83 words)

	Mexico's Wonder Plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This wonder plant is maguey, also known as agave and the century plant, a hearty succulent surviving southern Mexico's long, dry winter by storing liquid in its heart.
		Sixteenth-century Spanish explorers traveling through Mexico's highlands marveled at the various uses of maguey, and the Aztecs and Mixtecs, neighbors of the Zapotec, celebrated the plant in the earlier bark-paper and deerskin pages of Postclassic period (A.D. 800-1520) codices.
		Once the sap-filled hearts are cut from maguey plants, they are collected, roasted in outdoor ovens, then crushed to extract the juice for distillation.
	www.archaeology.org /0209/abstracts/mexico.html (560 words)

	Banda Maguey - FONOVISA.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Maguey le abre espacio a sus variadas expresiones y, fiel a su conocido estilo, produce una "Metamorfosis" tan radical que en su nuevo repertorio cabe una fiesta completa, con romanticismo, doble sentido e incluso una canción dedicada a los niños.
		Invariablemente, desde hace siete años, en cada una de sus grabaciones Banda Maguey está dedicándole algún tema especial a la infancia.
		Combinando el uso de instrumentos de viento y teclado electrónico, la esencia de Maguey se nota a millas de distancia.
	www.fonovisa.com /bandamaguey.html (702 words)

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