Daiquiri

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This article is about the mixed drink. For the Cuban village, see Daiquirí.

Template:Wikibookschapter Daiquiri, or Daiquirí (which is the Cuban spelling of the word), is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum and lime juice. There are several versions, but those that gained international fame are the ones made in one of the most famous bars in the world: the Floridita, in Havana.

The name Daiquirí is also the name of a beach near Santiago, Cuba, and an iron mine in that area. It is said that the cocktail was invented by an American named Jennings Cox, an engineer who worked in that very mine, which explains the origin of the cocktail's name.

It is said that Cox invented the drink when he ran out of gin while entertaining American guests. Wary about serving local rum straight up, Cox added limejuice and sugar to improve the rum's taste. Consumption of the drink remained localized until 1909, when Admiral Lucius W. Johnson, a US Navy medical officer, tried Cox's drink. Johnson subsequently introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington DC, and drinkers of the daiquiri increased over the space of a few decades.[1] The daiquiri was one of the favorite drinks of the writer Ernest Hemingway.

1 Frozen daiquiris
2 References in popular culture
3 See also
4 Sources

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Frozen daiquiris

A wide variety of alcoholic drinks made with finely pulverized ice are often called "frozen daiquiris". Although to purists most of these are not true daiquiris at all, use of this term to describe these drinks is common, especially around the U.S. Gulf Coast. Such drinks are often commercially made in machines which produce a texture similar to a smoothie, and come in a wide variety of flavors made with various alcohol or liquors.

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References in popular culture

In The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield says Daiquiri is his favourite drink. Despite this, though, all he orders during the story is scotch and soda.
In 1989 comedy cult film UHF, George Newman (played by "Weird Al" Yankovic) orders a blue berry daiquiri.

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