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Take Five
Cocktails nobody orders anymore
The Original Daiquiri
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September 01, 2005
Nowadays, most people think of the daiquiri as your typical, syrupy-sweet, blended froufrou drink, with fruity concoctions such as strawberry, banana or peach-raspberry-kiwi. But the daiquiri originated in the 1920s as the dignified cocktail of diplomats, simplified as merely white rum, sugar and fresh lime juice, shaken and strained into a chilled cocktail glass. Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders were thought to be among the first to discover the daiquiri in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. But the cocktail later became popularized in the States by JFK and literary giant Ernest Hemingway, who consistently ordered so many daiquiris at the La Floridita bar in Havana that they dubbed him "Papa Dobles" (Father Doubles).
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