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The Classic Daquiri: A Sublime Classic Cocktail You MUST Try (It’s nothing like the sticky-sweet fruity frappe you’re imagining)
Classic Hemingway Daquiris
The classic daquiri is a beautiful thing. It’s the stuff of cool breezes and hot summer sun. Just take a sip and you can smell the salty sea air. You can almost hear the wind whipping through the palm fronds and feel the white sand on the bottom of your sandals.
The Daquiri is the drink Ernest Hemingway made famous. After stumbling into an out-of -the-way bar off Havana’s Parque Central called El Floridita, he worked his way down the drink menu one night and discovered a favorite: a drink that will now live on as his namesake. The author famously downed up to a dozen Hemingway Daquiris every day during his stint in Cuba and made it a very popular summer drink in the US during the 40s and 50s.
Sadly, during the 70s, the drink was bastardized into a frothy mess of pureed fruits, strawberry syrups, and finely granulated ice. Yet the long-ignored classic daquiri is still a cocktail that satisfies; and with only three ingredients, it’s also incredibly easy to master.
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