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three ingredients pretending to be cocktail royalty, and somehow pulling it off.
means A cocktail of rum, lime juice, and sugar, served either shaken over ice or blended into a frozen slush.
from Named for Daiquirí, a beach and iron-mining village near Santiago de Cuba. The popular story credits an American engineer named Jennings Cox, who supposedly mixed the drink there around the turn of the 20th century when his gin ran out. The name caught on in the United States after the drink reached Washington and New York clubs in the early 1900s — so a Cuban mining town's name now lives on a cocktail menu.
- named after
- a Cuban iron-ore mine near Santiago
- hemingway approved
- he drank doubles with no sugar, daily
- frozen heresy
- blenders turned a classic into spring-break slush
- original recipe
- just rum, lime, and sugar shaken cold
- jfk loved it
- reportedly his favorite drink before bed
el floridita — havana bar where the daiquiri was invented in the 1890s, famously served to ernest hemingway
daiquiri beach — named location in santiago de cuba where the original daiquiri drink originated