Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Chuper michelada La Chupería. The drink's origin is the stuff of culinary urban legend. (Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times) The ...

Late one afternoon in the fall of 1985, I was sitting alone at a table inside a giant coffee cup two doors down from the Music Machine on Pico Boulevard in West Los Angeles when the waitress brought ...

Mexico City-based author and critic Alonso Ruvalcaba refers to the michelada and the beer cocktail’s evolution into popular culture as “democracy at work.” There’s no use stopping, he argues, the ...

In Zacatecas, an old mining town high in the mountains around Mexico City, in a sleek bar strung with paintings by Dalíó and Miro, a man pours tomato juice into my beer. To be strictly accurate it's ...

The first time I experienced the revelation of a michelada cocktail, a work mate had just handed me an icy mug filled with lager, lime and savory sauces. It was the summer of 2002 in Mexico City, and ...