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Did you know? Some tequila is priced at $225,000 Tony Burton

I know what you're thinking: "Tequila prices have been rising for years, but 225,000 dollars for a bottle is ridiculous!"

It may be ridiculous, but it is nonetheless true. The tequila company Tequila Ley .925 issued a press release in July 2006 proudly announcing the introduction of three different presentations of "Tequila Ley .925, Pasion Azteca, Gold and Platinum."

The tequila itself is exclusive, a premium quality 100% blue agave tequila, aged for 6 years. The bottles it comes in are even more special. The company has won several awards previously for its unorthodox designs. This time, each bottle is shaped like a barbed sea shell and engraved by Mexican artist Alejandro Gomez Oropeza. read more

beverages Tequila, Jalisco

Did you know? Diamonds from tequila Tony Burton

..."there's gold in them there hills, and diamonds in that there tequila"... Barrels of tequila© Sergio Wheeler, 2011 I know! You think I'm several sheets to the wind from too many shots of tequ... read more

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Did You Know? Archaeologists have found fifteen-hundred-year-old kitchens Tony Burton

Mexican cuisine has been one of the country's most successful cultural exports over the past twenty years or so and most large towns in North America and Europe now boast at least one Mexican restauran... read more

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Did You Know? Vanilla Festival in Papantla, Veracruz Tony Burton

The Vanilla Festival is held in early summer every year in Papantla, Veracruz. The origins of the festival pre-date the Spanish conquest. Its timing is now tied to the Catholic celebration of the Feast... read more

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Did You Know? Tequila dates from the sixteenth century Tony Burton

In 1897, Carl Lumholtz, the famous Norwegian ethnologist, who spent several years living with remote Indian tribes in Mexico, found that the Huichol Indians in eastern Nayarti distilled agave juice usi... read more

beverages Tequila, Jalisco

Did You Know? Oldest winery in the Americas is in Parras de la Fuente, Mexico Tony Burton

The oldest winery in the Americas is in Parras de la Fuente In Mexico, vineyards and wineries exist in several states, including Baja California, Sonora, Zacatecas, Querétaro, and Coahuila. Wine expe... read more

beverages Coahuila

Did You Know? - Mexico Gave Chocolate To The World Dale Hoyt Palfrey

Shortly after arriving at Tenochtitlán in the fall of 1519, Hernán Cortés and the Spanish conquistadores were granted an audience with Moctezuma at his breakfast table. They found the Aztec r... read more

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Did You Know? - Tobacco / Xigar Teresa Kendrick

Did you know that the word "cigar" originates from the Mayan word xigar? The word was used to describe the action of aspirating or sucking which later came to signify the act of smoking tobacco. T... read more

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Did You Know? - Vanilla Teresa Kendrick

Did you know that the vanilla bean is from an aromatic orchid that originally came from Mexico? The Academy of Sciences and Gastronomic Arts in Paris were so taken with the fruit of this orchid, that ... read more

spices Papantla, Veracruz

Did You Know? - Peanuts Teresa Kendrick

Did you know that the first people known to have used the peanut were the Mayans of Mexico? International explorers first recorded the peanut in Haiti, but were told it had originally been taken from ... read more

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Did You Know? - Pineapples & Papaya Teresa Kendrick

Did you know that peanuts, vanilla, guavas, tomatoes, some forty different chiles, avocados, and papayas originally came from Mexico? Pineapple also grew wild in Mexico, as well as Peru and along the ... read more

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Did You Know? - Chewing Gum Teresa Kendrick

Did you know that among the many things Mexico has given to the world, chewing gum is one of them? El Tzictlil, a Nahuatl word for resin from the Zapote Blanco tree, caught the attention of three Amer... read more

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Tony Burton

British-born Tony Burton has graduate degrees from the universities of Cambridge and London. After three years of teaching in the West Indies, he moved to Mexico in 1979, subsequently accepting Mexican citizenship. For more than a decade, he directed Odisea Mexico, a non-profit that organized academic fieldwork, principally in the earth sciences (geography, ecology, biology), for high-school and college groups, and specialist ecotourist excursions for adults. He now divides his time between writing and working as an educational consultant, specializing in geography. He served as chief examiner for geography for the International Baccalaureate Organization from 2003 to 2009.

Until its demise in 2006, Tony edited the worldwide subscription newsletter "Lloyd Mexican Economic Report". He has translated works on Paricutin Volcano, Juan Rulfo and Lake Chapala and has authored hundreds of original travel and ecotourist articles and several academic articles on fieldwork techniques and methodology, published in both English and Spanish. He is the only person ever to have won ARETUR's "Best of Mexico" travel writing competition on three separate occasions.

His books include Islands in the Sun: St. Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla (Government of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, 1977); "West Mexico: A Traveller's Treasury" (Editorial Agata, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1993); Lake Chapala Through the Ages — an anthology of travellers' tales (Sombrero Books, 2008). He co-authored, with Dr. Richard Rhoda, the groundbreaking "Geo-Mexico: the geography and dynamics of modern Mexico (Sombrero Books, 2010).

For many years Tony lived in Jocotepec, a small town on the shores of Lake Chapala, with his Canadian wife Gwen, who ran a hearing-aid program for hearing impaired students. They moved to Canada when their two children were young, and currently reside on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.