How Mate is Served in Argentina

Mate is served by El Cebador. This person  is the one who will be making the mate by putting the Mate herbs inside of a pumpkin like shell (previously cured and dried) and hot water is poured in it. Some people like to have sweet mate so some sugar is added before the water. The [...]

The history of Mate and how it came to be a National Argentine Drink

History says that a man named Irala, who was on several expeditions throughout South America at the time, saw this drink that we call Mate in Argentina for the first time in 1537 on the native Indians from the land. It was only really confirmed when in 1544 another man named Hernando Arias de Saavedra [...]