Maguey Worm Sauce

Perhaps you have seen a bottle of Oaxacan mezcal, the fiery liquor distilled from the agave or maguey plant, with a small object in the bottle that looks like a worm. It is. People in Oaxaca use every part of the maguey including the larvae of an insect that burrows into the roots and leaves. I have seen them being sold raw at the Etla village market in the Valley of Oaxaca, to be eaten as is with tortillas and a squirt of hot sauce or wrapped in corn husks and seared on a clay griddle. Mor