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Saints and Skeletons
A Memoir of Living in Mexico
Author: Ana Manwaring
Genre: Personal Memoir
Page Count: 338
Word Count: 82,750
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023937509
ISBNs
Paperback: 978-164456-616-9
Mobi: 978-1-64456-617-6
ePub: 978-1-64456-618-3
How did a forty-year-old bookkeeper come to leave her houseboat and business
to spend a year running rogue in Mexico?
This action-packed memoir / travelogue formed the real-life backdrop to what later became the successful JadeAnne Stone thriller series. Starting in the summer of 1991, Saints and Skeletons takes you through the back roads of Mexico, Belize, and the Peten region of northern Guatemala, where author, teacher and former journalist Manwaring camped out in ruins, sampled exotic foods, smoked loco weed atop pyramids, drank mescal out of the still, skinny dipped in Zipolite, found lost cities, and learned to make a killer margarita. In the process, she also experienced love, betrayal and loneliness. As doors opened and walls crumbled in her heart, skeletons tumbled out and, occasionally, saints appeared just when Manwaring needed them most.
JadeAnne’s Margaritas (shaken) - Serves 1
Ingredients
● 2 Lime wedges
● Sea salt medium grind
● Ice cubes
● 1 ½ oz. tequila añejo (Don Julio is good, if spendy)
● ½ oz. Cointreau
● ¼ oz. gold rum
● 1 oz fresh squeezed lime (Key limes are best0
● ½ oz. fresh squeezed orange juice (Cara Cara!)
● Dash of simple syrup or to taste
Instructions
● Run a wedge of lime around the rim of your margarita glass
● Dip the moistened rim into a saucer of salt, shaking off the excess
● Chill the glass
● Half-fill a cocktail shaker with ice
● Add the tequila, Cointreau, rum, lime juce, orange juice and the simple syrup as needed
● Shake well and strain into the chilled glass
● Garnish with the remaining wedge of lime and maybe a little Mexican flag on a toothpick!
¡Buen Provecho!
For a pitcher: determine how many 3 ¾ oz drinks your pitcher holds and multiply your recipe by that many. Instead of using a shaker, put a half tray of ice into the pitcher and stir the ingredients into the ice. Pour immediately into your chilled glasses and garnish.
This recipe came to JadeAnne via a British banker working in Mexico City. Olé and God Save the King!