Rapidly growing in popularity, it seems tequila has once and for all shaken its '80s image as something drunk solely by ...

Amy Stewart explores the plants that make the worlds best drinks. This week, Stewart describes the agave plant, a cousin to asparagus, and the plant that gave us tequila, mezcal and pulque.

If you've ever gotten into making cocktails, you've probably heard of agave syrup. It's a sweetener produced exclusively in Mexico from agave plants, and the blue agave plant is famously used to make ...

Though it may look similar to aloe, agave is more closely related to asparagus. There are over 200 varieties of the succulent, with 75 of those being grown in Mexico, and one -- blue Weber -- used in ...