High Wire Distilling in Charleston, SC, is using a grain from the past to make its award-winning whiskey.
Forgotten heritage grains — corn, rye, wheat, and barley — are being used to craft distinctive and complex whiskeys. Here are ...
There are nearly 60 heirloom corn varieties in Mexico, with families and communities cultivating the different “breeds” of corn for hundreds of years. Masienda, a dry corn and masa flour distribution ...
But now, the heirloom corn Vargas grows is in vogue. It accounts for 20 of the 50 acres on his farm in Ixtenco, in the central state of Tlaxcala. Vargas, 53, remembers just one acre reserved for it ...
An exciting dining revolution is happening: At Mexican restaurants across Denver, renowned chefs and culinary innovators are placing heirloom corn and its ancestral preparation practices at the heart ...
At High Wire Distilling in Charleston, Ann Marshall and Scott Blackwell revived heirloom Jimmy Red corn to make terroir-driven, Southern-inspired whiskey. Without grain — corn, rye, barley — there ...
IXTENCO, Mexico — On the slopes of the Malinche volcano, Juan Vargas starts the dawn routine he’s had since childhood, carefully checking stalks of colorful native corn. For years, Vargas worried that ...