Complex Numbers

Trick or Treat!

I just got done putting together the Comedy newsletter for this week. It comes out on Halloween, so I chose "Putting the Trick back in Trick or Treat" as the theme. If you're not a Comedy subscriber - which, if you're reading this, I fail to see how you wouldn't be - get on the bandwagon!

As for last night:

Ah, tequila. Drink of the gods. Unpronounceable gods, but still...

I learned more about tequila - and mezcal - last night than I had in the last mumble-mumble years. For instance: it's mezcal that has the worm, not tequila. Tequila never has a worm in the bottle. And, like the naming controls for French wine, tequila can only be produced in a limited area in Mexico - outside that area, it has to be called something else; mezcal, for instance. The flavor gradations and subtle aromas in agave-sourced drinks are almost as complex as those of wine. And there's basically three types of tequila: the cheap stuff (blanco), the good stuff (reposado, aged up to a year) and the expensive stuff (anejo, aged over a year). There is also apparently a super-expensive tequila named, unimaginatively, extra-anejo - a bottle of which can go for up to $225,000. No, I'm not kidding.

If all you're used to is Cuervo, you're missing out on a whole world of interesting flavor.