is >>> i came to oaxaca for mescal. i like mescal. more and more these days. and this guy, ron cooper, finds and sells some of the best mescal in the world. we're at the zapatec ruins of monte alban. >> in pre-conquest mexico, there were gods and goddesses of intoxication and ecstasy. the touch of a lover, the smell of a flower, the a-ha of an idea, all had gods and goddesses that took responsibility for those things. >> all of your mescals come from different villages and only that village? >> and only one maker in that village. we call our stuff single-village mescal because most mescals are made with a blend of different villages all put together. no one goes home and has a cocktail in these indian villages. they wait until there's a special occasion. ♪ every birth, death, confirmation, baptism, there's a fiesta. a wedding is eight days. you invite 200 people. you feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner. you have a band every day. and then they really consume. don't drink yet. for mother earth and her ancestors. and then you say stijibeo. >> stijibeo. that'

. >>> i came to oaxaca for mescal. i like mescal. more and more these days. and this guy, ron cooper, finds and sells some of the best mescal in the world. we're at the zapatec ruins of monte alban. >> in pre-conquest mexico, there were gods and goddesses of intoxication and ecstasy. the touch of a lover, the smell of a flower, the a-ha of an idea, all had gods and goddesses that took responsibility for those things. >> all of your mescals come from different villages and only that village? >> and only one maker in that village. we call our stuff single-village mescal because most mescals are made with a blend of different villages all put together. no one goes home and has a cocktail in these indian villages. they wait until there's a special occasion. ♪ every birth, death, confirmation, baptism, there's a fiesta. a wedding is eight days. you invite 200 people. you feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner. you have a band every day. and then they really consume. don't drink yet. for mother earth and her ancestors. and then you say stijibeo. >> stijibeo. that'

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live credit confident. >>> i came to oaxaca for mescal. i like mescal. more and more these days. and this guy, ron cooper, finds and sells some of the best mescal in the world. we're at the zapatec ruins of monte alban. >> in pre-conquest mexico, there were gods and goddesses of intoxication and ecstasy. the touch of a lover, the smell of a flower, the a-ha of an idea, all had gods and goddesses that took responsibility for those things. >> all of your mescals come from different villages and only that village? >> and only one maker in that village. we call our stuff single-village mescal because most mescals are made with a blend of different villages all put together. no one goes home and has a cocktail in these indian villages. they wait until there's a special occasion. ♪ every birth, death, confirmation, baptism, there's a fiesta. a wedding is eight days. you invite 200 people. you feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner. you have a band every day. and then they really consume. don't drink yet. for mother earth and her ancestors. and then you say stijibeo. >> stijibeo. that'

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we call our stuff single-village mescal because most mescals are made with a blend of different villages all put together. no one goes home and has a cocktail in these indian villages. they wait until there's a special occasion. ♪ every birth, death, confirmation, baptism, there's a fiesta. a wedding is eight days. you invite 200 people. you feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner. you have a band every day. and then they really consume. don't drink yet. for mother earth and her ancestors. and then you say stijibeo. >> stijibeo. that's extraordinary. back in the day, it was cheap stuff with a worm in it and there were rumors that if you ate the worm you would start tripping, that there was a hallucinogenic quality to mescal. >> yeah. >> is there a particular kind of high? is this an enlightening high? is this a good high? >> the high is humorous. you have these funny thoughts dancing around the back of your head. >> happy, witty drunk. >> yes. >> in oaxaca ancient indigenous traditions and ingredients define not only the mescal but also the food. >> one of the main reasons people visit o

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we call our stuff single-village mescal because most mescals are made with a blend of different villages all put together. no one goes home and has a cocktail in these indian villages. they wait until there's a special occasion. ♪ every birth, death, confirmation, baptism, there's a fiesta. a wedding is eight days. you invite 200 people. you feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner. you have a band every day. and then they really consume. don't drink yet. for mother earth and her ancestors. and then you say stijibeo. >> stijibeo. that's extraordinary. back in the day, it was cheap stuff with a worm in it and there were rumors that if you ate the worm you would start tripping, that there was a hallucinogenic quality to mescal. >> yeah. >> is there a particular kind of high? is this an enlightening high? is this a good high? >> the high is humorous. you have these funny thoughts dancing around the back of your head. >> happy, witty drunk. >> yes. >> in oaxaca ancient indigenous traditions and ingredients define not only the mescal but also the food. >> one of the main reasons people visit o

>>> i came to oaxaca for mescal. i like mescal. more and more these days. and this guy, ron cooper, finds and sells some of the best mescal in the world. we're at the zapatec ruins of monte alban. >> in pre-conquest mexico, there were gods and goddesses of intoxication and ecstasy. the touch of a lover, the smell of a flower, the a-ha of an idea, all had gods and goddesses that took responsibility for those things. >> all of your mescals come from different villages and only that village? >> and only one maker in that village. we call our stuff single-village mescal because most mescals are made with a blend of different villages all put together. no one goes home and has a cocktail in these indian villages. they wait until there's a special occasion. ♪ every birth, death, confirmation, baptism, there's a fiesta. a wedding is eight days. you invite 200 people. you feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner. you have a band every day. and then they really consume. don't drink yet. for mother earth and her ancestors. and then you say stijibeo. >> stijibeo. that'

comcast business built for business. >>> i came to oaxaca for mescal. i like mescal. more and more these days. and this guy, ron cooper, finds and sells some of the best mescal in the world. we're at the zapatec ruins of monte alban. >> in pre-conquest mexico, there were gods and goddesses of intoxication and ecstasy. the touch of a lover, the smell of a flower, the a-ha of an idea, all had gods and goddesses that took responsibility for those things. >> all of your mescals come from different villages and only that village? >> and only one maker in that village. we call our stuff single-village mescal because most mescals are made with a blend of different villages all put together. no one goes home and has a cocktail in these indian villages. they wait until there's a special occasion. ♪ every birth, death, confirmation, baptism, there's a fiesta. a wedding is eight days. you invite 200 people. you feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner. you have a band every day. and then they really consume. don't drink yet. for mother earth and her ancestors. and then you say st

live credit confident. >>> i came to oaxaca for mescal. i like mescal. more and more these days. and this guy, ron cooper, finds and sells some of the best mescal in the world. we're at the zapatec ruins of monte alban. >> in pre-conquest mexico, there were gods and goddesses of intoxication and ecstasy. the touch of a lover, the smell of a flower, the a-ha of an idea, all had gods and goddesses that took responsibility for those things. >> all of your mescals come from different villages and only that village? >> and only one maker in that village. we call our stuff single-village mescal because most mescals are made with a blend of different villages all put together. no one goes home and has a cocktail in these indian villages. they wait until there's a special occasion. every birth, death, confirmation, baptism, there's a fiesta. a wedding is eight days. you invite 200 people. you feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner. you have a band every day. and then they really consume. don't drink yet. for mother earth and her ancestors. and then you say stijibeo. >> stijibeo. that's ex

. >>> i came to ahawka for mescal. i like mescal more and more these days and this guy, ron cooper, finds and sells some of the best mescal in the world. we're at the zappatec ruins of monte alba. >> in pre-conquest mexico, there were gods and goddesses of intoxication and ecstasy. the touch of a lover, the smell of a flower, the a-ha of an idea, all had gods and goddesses that took responsibility for those things. >> all of your mescals come from different villages and only that village? >> and only one maker in that village. we call ourself single village mescal because most mescals are made with a blend of different villages all put together. no one goes home and has a cocktail in these indian villages. they wait until there's a special occasion. every birth, death, confirmation, baptism, there's a fiesta. a wedding is eight days. you invite 200 people. you feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner. you have a band every day. and then they really consume. don't drink yet. for mother earth and her ancestors. that's extra

so how we used to drink the mescal is never with lemon. it's with orange. >> it is not what a lot of people wanted to hear, much less see published. today anabel hernandez, author of the groundbreaking expose "los senores del narco" lives under guard in a secret location, the threat very, very real and very explicit. >> do you think there was ever a minute when the calderon war on drugs, was it ever genuine? >> no. who really start the war against the cartels was vicente fox. felipe calderon just followed that instruction, but he didn't really do anything new. he just did it worse. since the beginning, the plan of the government was protect the sinaloa cartel and fight against the enemies of the sinaloa cartel. >> of the seven major mexican cartels, the sinaloa cartel is considered the most powerful, with the farthest-reaching and most pervasive tentacles extending deep into every corner of government, banking and private industry. its rivals, the tijuana cartel, the gulf cartel, the juarez cartel, the beltra levya, la familia michoacana a

ok question mark the difference between tequila and mescale, they smoke it. that one has the worm and it. you will never find it warm in tequila. -- that one has the worm in it. that is a sexy ice cube. thet interferes with drinking. >> it does. that's great. shortage of limes? no problem. what is next question mark >> we limedo fresh squeezed juice -- >> what is next? >> we will do fresh squeezed lime juice. greeted by a texas socialite. we did fresh lime juice, cointreau -- tiple sec. voila. voila.a. -- >> we're going to do a little bit of cointreau. of want to get the stems out there. we have the heat and the seeds. know, i like it. we have about a minute, so let's -- i like it. we have about a minute, so let's rock it. >> this is a classic margarita. throw that in there. >> more lime juice. >> when you shake the cocktail, smack it on top. shake it, don't fake it. and smile. that is it. that is how you do it. you look like you have been doing that for years. now you will pour that into the glass. >> i have clearly done something wrong. >> no, there you go.

every time you enter a house in oaxaca, especially the small villages, they always offer you a shot of mescal. >> mm, so good. >> seguesa, a mole and chicken dish. this mole sauce, like a lot of the real old school moles made by masters like abigail, uses 35 different types of chili peppers and takes more than two weeks to make. do you think that until recently, until guys like you, that mexicans were not looking back at their own food culture, they were looking elsewhere? what was going on? >> we were conquered. we are also a culture that was conquered first by the aztecs and then we were conquered by the spaniards. so we were always told that everything that was good and excellent has to be imported. >> right. >> and what we have here, it was just not good. >> right. another zapotecan classic, chili agua, a simpler dish of cow and pork brains cooked with chilis, tomatoes and yerba santa. >> as a cook, the main thing i learn was to develop a little bit my cuisine here. there was this space where nobody tried to innovate. still using the same techniques, the same ingredients, the same flavors