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Ted Genoways’s Notes to Self
A Bit of Drama in Every Sip
Sauza bottles from the 1920s and '30s, including "vest pocket" bottles, which were meant to be small enough to sneak across the US-Mexico border during Prohibition.
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Issue: Fall 2017 / Volume 93/4
Published: October 1, 2017
Updated: November 3, 2017
Ted Genoways is the author of five books, most recently This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm (Norton, 2017). Tequila Wars, his saga of the Cuervos, Sauzas, and other tequila families, is forthcoming (Norton, 2019). He was the editor of VQR from 2003 to 2012.
Mary Anne Andrei’s photographs have appeared in the Guardian, Harper’s, In These Times, Maclean’s, Mother Jones, and the New Republic. Her history of museums and the early conservation movement, Nature’s Mirror, is forthcoming (Chicago, 2018). She is a story producer in the digital and multimedia division of Nebraska Public Television.