BOOK / ¡QUÉ VIVA EL PULQUE! Juan Escalona

KITCHEN / PHOTOGRAPHY

Pulque is a fermented beverage born of resilience. This book is a journey through its identity and nature. Each chapter links a region to a key theme: fermentation, natural history, tinacales (fermented agave fermentation chambers), or tensions, accompanied by ideal recipes to enjoy with pulque.
¡Que viva el pulque! (Long Live Pulque!) is a text that nourishes and ferments ideas for understanding the folk science of pulque and its cultural production system. It also serves as a vehicle that leads us to the protagonists, the tlachiqueros (pulque producers), who cultivate this beverage and, through their work, preserve and give life to the agricultural and cultural knowledge of their communities and our country. The book is divided into six parts: 1. What is Pulque?, 2. The Maguey Plant, 3. The Invisible Life of Pulque (Pulque Microbiology), 4. The Tinacal, 5. Tensions Surrounding Pulque, and 6. Pulque at Home: A Handbook. The book includes a glossary of terms, as well as diagrams that illustrate, both as infographics and imaginative scenarios, the world of pulque in both rural and urban settings. It also contains recipes created by the author for home cooking.
Written by Juan Escalona and edited by María Álvarez, designed by Taller e+e, with contributions from César I. Ojeda, illustrations by Lucia Sarabia and Aldo Domínguez, photography by Ana Lorenzana, and a foreword by Michael Snyder, this book is an archive, a recipe book, and a manual for experiencing pulque as a living beverage.

Pulque exists thanks to the people who produce it, but also to those who consume it. For it to live on, we must spread knowledge about it.

Title: Long Live Pulque!

Author: Juan Escalona
Number of Pages: 256
Size: 20 x 24 cm
Weight: 1,145 grams
Genre: Cooking, Photography
Language: Spanish
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Novo
Year: 2025