Imagine a type of food powerful enough to help you lower your cholesterol, reduce your risk of heart disease and cancer, and, for an added bonus, put you in a better mood. Did I mention that there are no side effects? You’d surely stock up on a lifetime supply, right? Guess what? Yerba mate offers you all …
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Although many hardcore materos out there would mostly likely laugh at the idea of adding anything other than yerba to their mate, it is not at all uncommon to “pimp up” your drink with all kinds of delicious flavors. There are several reasons why you would want to add different ingredients to your yerba, but …
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If you are new to drinking yerba mate, then you must have noticed that the recipients for drinking come in a variety of colors, materials and shapes. While the aesthetics of he recipient has absolutely no effect over your drink; material and shape do play an important and traditional role. The first recipients for drinking …
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Hello there, fellow materos. We know that drinking mate is… well…all about drinking and staying healthy, but if you are planning to host a mate circle at your house, you might want to treat your guests to a little something during those long and pleasant moments of mate drinking. Now, we are aware that eating …
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Before you may begin enjoying your yerba mate, you must first cure your gourd. This will protect your new gourd from mold and improve the taste of your drink. There are many ways to cure a gourd and any of them is probably fine, but on this post I will show you how to do it …
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The figure of the Gaucho is so intrinsically connected to the culture and tradition of yerba mate, that we decided that it would be a great a idea to shed some light on it and share with you a little bit about how it all began. It has now been over five centuries since the …
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Before we begin talking about what types of bombillas you can use, let’s first take a look at the origin of bombillas and why are they even necessary. “Bombilla” in Spanish and “bomba” in Portugese is a tool essential to consuming mate infusions. As with other brewed herbs, yerba mate leaves are dried, chopped, and ground …
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A Yerba Mate drinking circle is a cultural (and above all) social tradition that dates back to pre-colonial times in South America. Over the centuries, the “Materos” have developed their own set of rules for drinking mate in a circle. Amazingly, some of these rules have challenged the passage of time and are still very …
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