I GREW UP IN MONTERREY, Mexico, with a backyard filled with more than 200 nopales, or cactus plants. But as a kid, I wasn’t a fan. My mother loved nopales—she even ate them raw and used them in smoothies—but I wasn’t convinced. “I don’t like nopales; they’re slimy,” I remember complaining to her. It wasn’t until much later, after I had moved away to New York, met my husband, and had his family’s grilled nopales, that I finally learned to appreciate the spiny villain of my childhood.

Our scintilating addition to our Redox range; an Emerald Calacatta impression that is a match-made in heaven for our Redox Emerald.