Insider’s Guide to Drinking Yerba Mate Like an Argentine

From the rainforests in the North to the glaciers in the South, you will find Argentineans drinking mate (MAH-tay) no matter the weather. But what exactly is it? Yerba mate is a tea-like plant with high levels of caffeine traditionally drank out of calabash gourds and sipped through a filtered straw called a bombilla. The…

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