What’s with the New York Times and peas?!
Just a few weeks after the newspaper erroneously suggested adding peas to guacamole, the Times Magazine is back again, suggesting that peas are a great tequila mixer.
Yes, vegetables and tequila in the same glass!
In an article entitled “Drink Your Vegetables”, drink columnist Rosie Schapp recommends a pea-soaked cocktail.
“Tequila mingles joyfully with other produce,” Schapp writes.
Dawn Kinstle, a bartender in South Slope — where else — has created a pea and tequila cocktail named the Chícharo Pea-queño, “in which juice from the pods of English peas is combined with tequila, mint, lime and just a touch of salt to bright, refreshing and gorgeously green effect.”
Refreshing.
The recipe for the Chícharo Pea-queño is published online– the recipe requires straining your own English peapod juice…–, if you dare to add some extra vitamins to your drinking regimen.
@NYTMag tweeted a picture of the Green Giant as “a previously unreleased photo of our editor in chief ” and we’re not entirely sure they’re joking.
#PeaGate
