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At the restaurant, open and buzzing with customers since 1969, cooks combine a mixture of beef cheeks and meat from the head, wrap it in a maguey leaf, place a cow tongue on top, and steam it (the tongue is served separately).
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Edmund Tijerina, Bon Appétit, 27 Feb. 2025
The maguey imparts a subtly vegetal flavor, and cooks reserve just enough fat so that each bite of meat is unctuous.
—Edmund Tijerina, Bon Appétit, 27 Feb. 2025
That will include a Mezcal service, which includes a small bottle of the smokey Mexican spirit, served with different salts including nutty maguey worm salt, hibiscus salt, Chicatana ant salt and others.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 11 Oct. 2024
Traditionally, it’s wrapped in the thin film sourced from the stalks of maguey plants such as agave, and then steamed or cooked in a pit.
—Paola Briseño-Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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Edmund Tijerina, Bon Appétit, 27 Feb. 2025
The maguey imparts a subtly vegetal flavor, and cooks reserve just enough fat so that each bite of meat is unctuous.
—Edmund Tijerina, Bon Appétit, 27 Feb. 2025
That will include a Mezcal service, which includes a small bottle of the smokey Mexican spirit, served with different salts including nutty maguey worm salt, hibiscus salt, Chicatana ant salt and others.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 11 Oct. 2024
Traditionally, it’s wrapped in the thin film sourced from the stalks of maguey plants such as agave, and then steamed or cooked in a pit.
—Paola Briseño-Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Maguey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maguey. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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maguey
noun
ma·guey
mə-ˈgā 
plural magueys
1
: any of various agaves (as the century plant) with fleshy leaves
2
: any of several hard fibers obtained from magueys
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