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The daiquiri (/ ˈ d aɪ k ər i, ˈ d æ k-/; Spanish: daiquirí) is a cocktail whose main ingredients are rum, citrus juice (typically lime juice), and sugar or other sweetener. The daiquiri is one of the six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury 's classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks , which also lists some variations.
The alcoholic cocktail, the daiquiri, was supposedly named for the area. There is an iron mine near Daiquirí, which is a word of Taíno origin. [2] [failed verification] The cocktail was supposedly invented about 1900 in a bar named Venus in Santiago, about 23 miles east of the mine, by a group of American mining engineers.
A chain of franchise locations was established, with the biggest growth following World War II. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Frostop drive-ins reached their peak in 1958 with locations concentrated mostly in the American midwest and deep south, but found from New York and Florida to California and Washington state.
A new food-and-drink business is about to take over the space at 2800 E. Central that most recently was home to the short-lived SmokeHouse ICT.. Friends of more than 20 years Tracy Allen and Toji ...
La Madeleine Country French Café was founded in February 1983 by Patrick Esquerré, a Loire Valley-born businessman. [2] With the advice and support of legendary retail magnate Stanley Marcus, of Neiman Marcus fame, and his mother, Monique Esquerré, he opened his first bakery on Mockingbird Lane in Dallas, Texas near Southern Methodist University, and it soon expanded to a café.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
Port Fourchon is Louisiana’s southernmost port, located on the southern tip of Lafourche Parish, on the Gulf of Mexico. It is a seaport, with significant petroleum industry traffic from offshore Gulf oil platforms and drilling rigs as well as the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port pipeline. Fourchon's primary service markets are domestic deepwater ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Louisiana that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register; or are otherwise significant for their history, their association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.