Do You Know Where Your New Years Eve Cocktail Comes From?
Jeff Burkhart
Posted on December 30th, 2010
After a long workweek a business colleague and I decided to salve away our ills with a few cocktails. She ordered some sugary newfangled confection and I, being seasonally nostalgic, opted for the hot weather classic, a gin and tonic. Once prepared and sipped upon she leaned forward slightly. âI have a confession to make,â she said as she whisked a stray hair from in front of her eyes. âI donât like gin and tonics,â she said. âThey taste soâ¦soâ¦medicinal,â she added while twirling that self-same errant hair. âWell thereâs a good reason for that,â I said, taking a long sip. I then began to tell her why. The problem with the origins of classic cocktails is that often those cocktails were developed by…