For last week’s Books and Comics Issue, we excerpted a few pages from Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan’s excellent forthcoming comic cookbook Let’s Make Ramen!, which neatly orders the often confusing universe of a relatively recent culinary phenomenon.
And there are targets on both sides. “Mediocre and mass-produced products are already flooding the market, aiming to prey on both a general lack of education among consumers and those same consumers’ raw enthusiasm,” writes Jay Schroeder in Understanding Mezcal, a slim, delightfully designed volume that answers agave-related questions beginning with “What does the word mezcal even mean?”
