you should go for a traditional drinking vessel to sip your mezcal straight. The most authentic cup used for mezcal is the jicara. This shallow bowl-like vessel is made from a calabash gourd and ...

Drinking bottle gourd's juice is excellent for maintaining ... and duodenitis (inflammation of the duodenum). Consuming bitter calabash juice may result in upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage ...

Yerba mate is a traditional South American drink that’s gaining worldwide ... served in a container called a gourd, also known as a calabash. It’s commonly sipped through a metal straw that ...

They regularly dip their bombilla into a brew of yerba mate, traditionally contained in a calabash gourd. The bombilla is a type of drinking straw with one end closed except for a series of ...

More traditional ones are made from a hollowed-out calabash or bottle gourd (left ... sip is considered too strong and bitter). Then drink up — and keep refilling your cup until the thermos ...

“I started drinking it when I was young ... Yerba mate in a traditional calabash gourd and bag of dry herb anyaivanova Getty Images/iStockphoto Inter Miami goalkeeper coach Sebastian Saja ...

Other items like wooden spoons, ladles and cups are made from this versatile gourd. Most people who grew up in the Caribbean know the calabash very well. For our other readers who are not familiar ...

Minutes after drinking a bitter juice made from a pureed gourd, a woman went into shock, a life-threatening condition where blood flow in the body plummets and organs can be injured from lack of ...