Monterrey Market has piles of various melons now. You could do a melon mania thing. Yogurt, mixed with a little brown sugar and a splash of hootch (e.g. triple sec) makes a good dip for fruit.

As one-eyed Dell used to say drinking hootch after hours of laying patch up in the High Sierra, “Don't light no match”.

, you are leaning towards Asian, my current favorite is Pho 79 Saint Paul, off of Raymond and Energy Park. Fresh, tasty, very inexpensive, no atmosphere at all. No hootch, but with their Vietnamese iced coffee, who cares? Not...

Pan deglazed with some port (or some kind of sweet hootch), before adding the red wine . . . that small bit of port just seems to balance the sauce somehow. Doesn’t end up tasting sweet in the least. Also a piece of beef...

Part of drinking straight hootch back in the US was eventually saying, “Don't nobody light no match”.

in a dried calabash. And the first time I had sojuk, at a black-goat specialty restaurant, I thought it was illegal hootch because they brought it to the table in dainty teapots.) Never had mak-kal-lee though. It sounds right up...

I am not buying for resale. Stocking my liquor cabinet not my local bar. I would think that it would be illegal to resell. I have no idea that personal consumption hootch could be a crime. Any chowhound lawyers out there. Keep me...

OK, how do you transport booze/hootch/wine with you on the plane now, given the new security arrangements? Do they allow it, or it could very well be liquid explosives?

Remember, in the scenario I suggested, I would have removed all my food and served theirs on disposables prior to my hitting the hootch.

to talk them into a little tasting. This is not worm in the bottle hootch. Their mezcal is more like really good, upscale scotch. Enjoy your trip, and if you think the 20 de Noviembre market is good, be sure to check out the...

of the local hootch to bring back home, or suck down at Glass Beach, this is a good place to start.

martini. Just as with the martini, toss out the pernod, fill glass with the hootch. Make a real lemon twist (just the peel) and wrench that over the concoction, dropping peel into the drink. Voila! Some bartenders also use...