This holiday season, try sotol, a distilled spirit made from Dasylirion texanum, a shrub blooming in the vast Chihuahua desert, crisscrossing into far West Texas. Just don’t refer to it as a ...

I’m talking about sotol. Sotol is aptly named after the sotol plant or desert spoon or Dasylirion cactus that it is distilled from. This might sound pretty straightforward, but it took a fraught ...

Produced in the northern desert areas of Mexico, from a cactus called Dasylirion, it was originally a ceremonial drink of the indigenous people of that area. Now, this mystical spirit with woody ...

Common perennial and succulent pairings include desert spoon (Dasylirion wheeleri) alongside black dalea (Dalea frutescens), prickly pear species with penstemon or try octopus agave (Agave ...

I’m talking about sotol, aptly named after the plant it’s distilled from, the sotol or desert spoon or Dasylirion cactus. This might sound pretty straightforward, but it took a fraught and ...