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Cosmopolitan

A classic cocktail believed to have originated in the 1970s in New York City, the fashionable Cosmopolitan (or affectionately Cosmo) consists of vodka, orange liqueur, cranberry juice, and freshly squeezed lime juice.

It simultaneously gained popularity and influenced popular culture in the 1990s when it was frequently mentioned and ordered by the iconic Carrie Bradshaw from the TV show Sex and the City. The ingredients should be vigorously shaken with cracked ice in a cocktail shaker before the combination is strained into a large martini glass with a lemon twist garnish.
Another big cocktail that people drink today, although this cocktail is relatively young
compared to the others out there.
This drinks history is believe it or not also in dispute after people have tried to come to
an agreement of who came up with this cocktail! It has now been broken down to give
credit to a certain amount of people. It says it all started in the 1970s it was created in
Provincetown, Massachusetts for the gay community.
Neal Murray is one being named for being the funder of the cosmopolitan who worked in
the Cork & Cleaver Steak house in Minneapolis in 1975
John Caine, owner of several popular bars in San Francisco and cosmopolitan expert
partially credits the upsurge in cocktails during the 1970s to the cosmo being served at
fern bars
Cheryl Cook once said "What over whelmed me was the number of people who ordered
Martinis just to be seen with a martini glass in their hand. It was on this realization that
gave me the idea to create a drink that everyone could palate and was visually stunning
in that classic glass”. This is what the cosmopolitan was based on.
Melissa Huffsmith is an important person involved in the creation of the drink. When
working at The Odeon in 1987/1988 she developed a slightly different version of what
they had been doing before she used citron vodka, Cointreau and freshly squeezed lime
juice and then just a splash off the cranberry juice. Just barley pink she used the name
Pink Lemonade Pink.
Category : Classic
Glass : Martini
Ingredients : 1 1/2 shot Citron Vodka
: 1 squeezed Lime wedge (Leave in shaker)
: 1/2 shot Cointreau
: 3/4 shot cranberry juice
Method : Shake and fine strain
Garnish : Flamed orange zest

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