Tag: cocktail
Cocktail Drink with or without alcohol
According to the bartender at Antoine’s Restaurant in New Orleans, the word cocktail comes from the fact that a French bartender was serving a drink, Bitter, in an egg cup with two handles, and that the English do not understand the word “egg cup” (pronounced almost “coquetiel” at the time), would have understood cocktail. Jerry Thomas (1830-1885) is considered the father of the cocktail, he did not invent it but introduced it to the world and made it known. Jerry Thomas, the father of mixology. A cocktail is a mixture in which different drinks are combined with ingredients that bring flavor and harmony in their combinations, creating refreshing mixtures with ingredients such as: fruits, fruit juices, soft drinks, tonic water, etc.