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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.
Jennings Stockton Cox Jr. (November 23, 1866 – August 31, 1913) was an American mining engineer who is said to have invented the drink known as the daiquiri in the late nineteenth century while working as an expatriate engineer in Cuba. [1]
Queen Mary, a North American cocktail, made by combining beer, grenadine and Maraschino cherries. The term cocktail can refer to a wide variety of drinks; it is typically a mixed drink containing alcohol. [17] When a combined drink contains only a distilled spirit and a mixer, such as soda or fruit juice, it is a highball.
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.
Alaska: The Historic Skagway Inn (1897) Skagway. Olivia's Bistro at The Historic Skagway Inn, dating back to 1897, serves fresh Pacific seafood and Alaskan specialties like elk chili and smoked ...
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Next to the stage was a bar, at which people crowded, ordering daiquiris and beer, all free." [43] A sign at the event read "Bacardi rum welcomes the author of The Old Man and the Sea". In his article "The Old Man and the Daiquiri", Wayne Curtis writes about how Hemingway's "home bar also held a bottle of Bacardí rum".
The ancient Egyptians made at least 17 types of beer and at least 24 varieties of wine. The most common type of beer was known as hqt. Beer was the drink of common laborers; financial accounts report that the Giza pyramid builders were allotted a daily beer ration of one and one-third gallons. [8]