{"id":1480,"date":"2012-05-04T12:13:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T16:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2013-06-10T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:34:18","slug":"the-art-of-mate-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/04\/the-art-of-mate-drinking\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of mate drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mate1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1485\" title=\"Mate\" src=\"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mate1-e1335643108174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"826\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The graceful and sociable art of drinking Mate \u2014 the\u00a0traditional South American infused tea made from steeped leaves and twigs of the yerba mate plant \u2014 is so complex, one really needs instruction of what is actually a whole mate culture.<\/p>\n<p>We received a few lessons in mate drinking recently\u00a0from Silvio Rodriguez, owner and operator of the El\u00a0Almacen Yerba Mate Caf\u00e9 on Queen Street West.\u00a0What Silvio showed us was so detailed and so absorbing,\u00a0we felt \u2014 even after his patient tutoring \u2014 that we were\u00a0merely scraping the surface of this very rich experience.<\/p>\n<p>We began with a basic question: what is mate, anyhow?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nj2QNyj9_sA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We then asked him what kind of equipment you need in order to prepare and serve mate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yoy-yANcNaU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After which, we needed to know how to actually make this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/98dRa_OPckE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, growing ever more intrigued by what we\u00a0were finding out about Mate, we asked Silvio Rodriquez\u00a0the best and most traditional way to go about serving it\u00a0and drinking it. And it\u2019s a lot more complicated than you\u00a0would imagine.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t2te2j9UGsg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>El Almacen Yerba Mate Caf\u00e9 is at 1078 Queen Street West<br \/>\n416-516-2898<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The graceful and sociable art of drinking Mate \u2014 the\u00a0traditional South American infused tea made from steeped leaves and twigs of the yerba mate plant \u2014 is so complex, one really needs instruction of what is actually a whole mate culture. 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