You can sip me, you can eat me and you can moisturize with me—what am I? The agave plant. Today, this plant is widely known as the key ingredient in the alcoholic beverage that is taken with lime and salt or mixed in to make margaritas, but agave has a much greater importance in…
If you think Arizona wine doesn’t compare to wine made in Sonoma or Napa Valley, you’re right. Arizona wine doesn’t compare, but not for the reasons you may think. Robert Leopardi, Southern Arizona director of sales for Quench Fine Wines, has been working his way up the wine industry for 40 years. In his current…
It pricks you in the hand if you touch it and gets stuck to the bottom of your shoe if you step on it. But, if you learn to work around the painful exterior, the prickly pear cactus is one of the Sonoran Desert’s tastiest hidden treasures. “It’s hard to believe that something so brilliant…
