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Cocktail historian David Wondrich speculates that "cocktail" is a reference to gingering, a practice for perking up an old horse by means of a ginger suppository so that the animal would "cock its tail up and be frisky", [14] hence by extension a stimulating drink, like pick-me-up. This agrees with usage in early citations (1798: "'cock-tail ...
By the time "old-fashioned cocktails" started to be referred to in the 1880s, this still referred to various spirits – a whiskey version was called an "old fashioned whiskey cocktail" – but specified a lump of sugar, rather than syrup, building in the glass, and sometimes left a spoon in the glass, to stir or eat the partially undissolved ...
The history of the margarita is shrouded in mystery and folklore due to its numerous origin stories. [2] [3] According to cocktail historian David Wondrich, the margarita is related to the brandy daisy (margarita is Spanish for "daisy"), remade with tequila instead of brandy.
Theories Behind the Term "Cocktail" The Horse Theory. One of the first theories about the word "cocktail" comes from horse history. The word was first used to talk about a horse with a short ...
The Ritz Hotel in Paris claims origin of the drink. The first recipes for the sidecar appear in 1922, in Robert Vermeire's Cocktails and How to Mix Them and Harry MacElhone's Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails. It is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks (1948).
French 75 is a cocktail made from gin, champagne, lemon juice, and sugar.It is also called a 75 cocktail, or in French simply a soixante quinze ('seventy five').. The drink dates to World War I, and an early form was created in 1915 at the New York Bar in Paris—later Harry's New York Bar—by barman Harry MacElhone.
The cocktail renaissance spanned from the early 2000s through 2017. [3] It has no clear single origin, though it was largely influenced by three previous food-and-beverage movements: the Culinary Revolution of the 1970s and 1980s (a reaction to the processed foods of postwar America, which also influenced the wine and beer industries), the rise of the craft beer industry, and the rising ...
Clearly unaware of the drink's actual origins, in August 1891, British physician Sir Morell Mackenzie wrote an article in the influential 19th century magazine Fortnightly Review claiming that England was the originating country for the Tom Collins cocktail and a person named John Collins was its creator. [2]