Like colonel Aureliano Buendía, a character in Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s (1927–2014) masterwork One Hundred Years of Solitude, who fought 32 revolutions and lost them all, João Manso ...
Mexico has tequila. Colombia has aguardiente. Cuba has rum. Brazil’s spirit goes by the name of cachaça, a rum-like liquor steeped in history. Unlike much rum, it is not made from molasses but from ...
Cachaça — fun to say (ka-sha-sa) and even more to fun to drink — is a variety of rum that’s tied to Brazilian culture and cuisine. And while rum can be made from molasses, raw sugar or anything in ...