When it comes to foods and drinks popularized by American restaurants, it is easier to trace some histories and virtually impossible to trace others. For example, the invention of the potato chip is easily traced to a chef at a resort in Sarasota Springs, but there are more than a dozen people and locations claiming the invention of the hamburger. The margarita is another concoction without a clear history.
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All of the stories regarding the invention of the margarita agree that it was a cocktail that could be served with or without ice. The location in which margaritas were first served, however, varies by story.
• One story places the first margarita at a restaurant
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A bartender offered a patron named Margarita Henkel the first of his experimental drinks and decided to name the cocktail in her honor.
• Yet another story places the first margarita in Juarez, Mexico, in 1942.
• Two stories place the invention of the margarita in 1948, but since Jose Cuervo had launched an ad campaign for the drink in 1945, neither of these stories seem credible.
• Perhaps the story with the most credibility is that the margarita was simply a version of the daisy, a popular drink in America, that substituted tequila for brandy. A newspaper editor from Iowa published an account in 1936 that told of finding the drink in Tijuana. Interestingly, margarita is Spanish for daisy.
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When the electric blender became popular during the 1950s, homeowners and bartenders alike began to create frozen concoctions. Frozen daiquiris were extremely popular during the first half of the decade, but frozen margaritas soon began to gain ground. No one knows who first began producing frozen margaritas with a blender, but the first margarita machine can be traced to a Dallas restauranteur. Mariano Martinez found that his bartenders had a hard time keeping up with the demand for frozen margaritas. He was also unhappy with the inconsistency of the drinks. With the help of a friend, Martinez purchased a machine that delivered soft-serve ice
WHO INVENTED IT: The people who invented the jolly ranchers were Bill and Dorothy Harmens.
Tom Standage has described the beginnings of six beverages: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola and has found many connections, and information helpful in finding out history of the drinks themselves but also their impacts on the growth of civilization as a whole. This book connects everything with society both past and present, it makes learning about history and the way drinks connect fun and interesting. Like learning without even realizing you are. A History of the World in Six Glasses is more than just talking about each beverage as a single but as a whole, it’s connections, uses, relations, and growth they started.
Using beverages , he took the reader on a journey that shows how this interweaves with history.Standage is a delightful writer, mixing his light hearted style with exceptional historical savvy not just on the topic of drinks, but throughout.
She lays out the most common argument in where the genealogy of cocktail arose, citing the first printed mention of 1806 with the all familiar composition. However, she draws our attention back to the earliest mixed drink of grog, as well as the wildly popular Punch of 1672, if not 1632. Why would we not believe that a punch, comprised of water, rum, lime juice and sugar, counted as a cocktail? Or the forty-four combinations of rum with other ingredients written in 1759 by Isreal Acrelius in his book? Though she offers the easily found information such as the first finding of print mention, Kimball opens the discussion of cocktail history to question what we classify as a cocktail – is it any mix of liquor with something else or must it be as the first description to be concluded as
When we learn about the history of the world we usually divide it up into eras, dynasties, major wars, revolutions, etc. But what we all learn is that even the smallest thing can have a massive impact on history. In this book, Tom Standage chose to look at the way six different beverages altered history. I never knew how important different beverages were throughout history, but Standage was able to prove that beverages were responsible for global revolutions, intellectual and political insights, and good motivators for work.
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In the 1950’s they expanded the menu by adding new ice cream products. They later added a food line which the called the Brazier. In the 1960’s many changes were brought about to the operations of the Dairy Queen system.
Meanwhile, the American drinkers were joined by waves of European immigrants, who drank no less. Europeans brought the alcoholic crafts of their native countries, so the American melting pot was enriched with Scots-Irish distillers, German brewers and Italian winemakers. Liquor was sold in Saloons, which often served also as the only pla...
When Dr. Pemberton mixed the drink with tonic water, sampled it, and critiqued it until excellent, his bookkeeper, Frank Robinson, named the product Coca-Cola and created the distinct and classic font still recognizable today. Before dying only two years later, Dr. Pemberton sold the original product to an Atlanta businessman known as Asa Candler. He became one of the greatest men to work with Coca-Cola. Mr. Candler traveled all around the city handing out coupons and advertisements to people to come and try the best new thing. As the new president, Asa Candler distributed Coca-Cola to more and more fountains outside of his city. With the new syrup plants in more cities like Los Angeles, California; Dallas, Texas; and Chicago, Illinois, Mr. Candler was able to spread items with the famous brand name on them across the country ("Coca-Cola History").
Mexican cuisine is a fusion of indigenous Mesoamerican cooking with European, principally SpanisH elements. The basic predominant native foods such as corn, beans and chili peppers, but the Europeans introduced a large number of different foods,such as beef, pork, chicken, goat and sheep, farm products especially cheese and various herbs and lots of spices. Mexican cuisine is as complex as any of the great cuisines in the world, such as China, France, Italy and Turkey. It is crea...
Jennifer. “Gender Relations and Alcohol: An Examination of The Cocktail Waitress: Women’s work in a Man’s World.”. December 9th, 2001. www.geocities.com/wellesley/6265/papers/gender/cocktailwaitress.html
On May 8, 1886, pharmacist John Stith Pemberton stirred up fragrant caramel-coloured syrup in a three legged brass kettle. He carried a jug of his new formulation to the Jacobs's Pharmacy, Atlanta. On the following day, the new product debuted as a soda fountain drink for five cents a glass. By accident or by design, carbonated water was mixed with the syrup which has created the world's most popular drink.
Coca-Cola was formulated by John S.Pemberton, originally as a cocawine called Pemberton's French Wine Coca, and originally sold as a patent medicine for five cents a glass at soda fountains, which were popular in America due to a contemporary view that soda water was good for your health. Coca-Cola is the trademarked name, registered in 1893, for a popular soft drink sold in stores, restaurants and vending machines around the world.
To start orange juice was not always here. It came out of an advertising campaign in the 1920’s. (1)The California Fruit Growers (now known as Sunkist) had been producing too many oranges for the current market. Their supply and demand ratio was off. They needed to find a new use for oranges besides just peeling and consuming them .There was too many oranges being wasted. Orange juice takes three to four oranges for each cup of juice. It was an effective means to use extra oranges.(2)
The origins of ice cream go way back to the 4th century B.C. In the 13th century, Marco Polo learned of the Chinese method of creating ice and milk mixtures and brought it back to Europe. It became a fashionable treat in Italy and France.