Alvin has the following qualifications and background experience regarding the Oaxaca mezcal tours he offers:
Author of over 80 articles about mezcal, pulque, sustainability and Mexican craft beer;
Author of an additional 250 articles about Oaxacan life and cultural traditions for both local and international magazines and newspapers, as well as travel websites;
First Canadian to be certified as a Master Mezcalier by Asociación Pro-Cultura de Mezcal, A.C.;
Contributing Writer for Mexico Today, a program of the Mexican Government’s Marca País – Imagen de México;
Owner of Oaxaca Mezcal & Pulque (www.oaxaca-mezcal.com) and Mezcal Educational Excursions of Oaxaca (www.mezcaleducationaltours.com), and co-owner of Oaxaca Culinary Tours (www.oaxacaculinarytours.com);
Trained and licensed by the Government of Mexico to teach aficionados, novices, bartenders and bar owners, as well as restauranteurs about the culture of mezcal and pre-Hispanic fermented drinks (i.e. pulque);
M.A. in social anthropology (York University, Toronto) in addition to a J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School;
Author of Mezcal in the Global Spirits Market: Unrivalled Complexity, Innumerable Nuances, expanded third edition with portraits section (available by email or when visiting Oaxaca);
Extensive travel throughout the central valleys of Oaxaca since 1991, and a permanent resident since 2004;
Student of Oaxacan fermented drinks and distilled spirits since 1993;
Oaxaca “Destination Expert” for an international travel website (www.tripadvisor.com);
Special assistant to on-site production team, Echo Entertainment, Inc., for Veria Network’s Oaxaca segments of its sustainable living television series entitled Under the Sun;
Locations consultant for UK television series Mexican Food Made Simple (hosted by Thomasina Miers of Wahaca Restaurants in London), produced by Blink Films UK;
Fixer, Interpreter and on-camera bit performer in a program produced for French and German television by Petit Dragon, Ltd., Happiness in the Plate, centering upon the food and drink (i.e. mezcal and pulque) of Oaxaca centering upon Chef Pilar Cabrera;
Fixer for Patterson & Murphy Public Relations, sourcing best locations and attending with crew photographing street food locales for the book, Hugo Ortega’s Street Food of Mexico;
Consultant to numerous foreign interests regarding mezcal and pulque;
Former director of CANFRO (Canadian Friends of Oaxaca Inc.), a registered charity for the benefit of needy Oaxacans (www.canfro.ca);
Personal collection of more than 600 different mezcals;
Director of Fondo Guadalupe Musalem, a charity for the benefit of bight young indigenous women(www.fondoguadalupemusalem.org)
Co-author of the most comprehensive, full color bilingual mezcal tasting wheel.
Randall has the following qualifications and background experience regarding the Oaxaca mezcal tours he offers: (page under construction)
Author of over 80 articles about mezcal, pulque, sustainability and Mexican craft beer;
Author of an additional 250 articles about Oaxacan life and cultural traditions for both local and international magazines and newspapers, as well as travel websites;
First Canadian to be certified as a Master Mezcalier by Asociación Pro-Cultura de Mezcal, A.C.;
Contributing Writer for Mexico Today, a program of the Mexican Government’s Marca País – Imagen de México;
Owner of Oaxaca Mezcal & Pulque (www.oaxaca-mezcal.com) and Mezcal Educational Excursions of Oaxaca (www.mezcaleducationaltours.com), and co-owner of Oaxaca Culinary Tours (www.oaxacaculinarytours.com);
Trained and licensed by the Government of Mexico to teach aficionados, novices, bartenders and bar owners, as well as restauranteurs about the culture of mezcal and pre-Hispanic fermented drinks (i.e. pulque);
M.A. in social anthropology (York University, Toronto) in addition to a J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School;
Author of Mezcal in the Global Spirits Market: Unrivalled Complexity, Innumerable Nuances, expanded third edition with portraits section (available by email or when visiting Oaxaca);
Extensive travel throughout the central valleys of Oaxaca since 1991, and a permanent resident since 2004;
Student of Oaxacan fermented drinks and distilled spirits since 1993;
Oaxaca “Destination Expert” for an international travel website (www.tripadvisor.com);
Special assistant to on-site production team, Echo Entertainment, Inc., for Veria Network’s Oaxaca segments of its sustainable living television series entitled Under the Sun;
Locations consultant for UK television series Mexican Food Made Simple (hosted by Thomasina Miers of Wahaca Restaurants in London), produced by Blink Films UK;
Fixer, Interpreter and on-camera bit performer in a program produced for French and German television by Petit Dragon, Ltd., Happiness in the Plate, centering upon the food and drink (i.e. mezcal and pulque) of Oaxaca centering upon Chef Pilar Cabrera;
Fixer for Patterson & Murphy Public Relations, sourcing best locations and attending with crew photographing street food locales for the book, Hugo Ortega’s Street Food of Mexico;
Consultant to numerous foreign interests regarding mezcal and pulque;
Former director of CANFRO (Canadian Friends of Oaxaca Inc.), a registered charity for the benefit of needy Oaxacans (www.canfro.ca);
Personal collection of more than 600 different mezcals;
Director of Fondo Guadalupe Musalem, a charity for the benefit of bight young indigenous women(www.fondoguadalupemusalem.org)
Co-author of the most comprehensive, full color bilingual mezcal tasting wheel.
Randall has the following qualifications and background experience regarding the Oaxaca mezcal tours he offers: (page under construction)
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