Romancing the Cocktail: Just the Classics for Valentine’s Day
Cocktails are made for romance. Their long stems and crystal glassware, measured patience, shakes and clangs, natural garnishes, and gushes of smooth flavors all collide together to intoxicate the palette and imagination. No one really knows where the first one was imbibed, but the cocktail is considered to have first gained proper praise on American soil. Other cultures have been lovingly mixing spirits for centuries, though. The ancient Greeks mixed spices and honey with their wine, and the British after them took to sugaring their grog to make it go down with ease.
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