Instructions: Shake well with cracked ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass that has had its rim rubbed with lime juice and dipped in coarse salt. A note on the tequila: It should be 100 percent agave, the plant from which the stuff is traditionally made.Save the great golden anejos aÃ±ejos for. sippingssentially a variation on the Sidecar -- substituting tequila for brandy, lime juice for lemon, and salt rim for sugar -- the margarita shares its characteristic luminosity and, especially, its sneakiness.
King James I is the namesake of Jamestown, Virginia - the first permanent English settlement in America. The Pilgrims were sailing on the Mayflower ship to join the Jamestown Colony when the got blown off course in a winter storm and landed at Cape Cod. The Pilgrims had no charter from the King so they wrote their famous Mayflower Compact.
Central Virginia disaster experts fretted as Fran wheeled inland to the west. Once most hurricanes reach land, their path and their duration become much less predictable, and Fran was no exception. Yet at one point, it seemed to have Central Virginia squarely in its sights, with all the torrential rain and still-nasty wind that implied. In the end, however, Lynchburg and the surrounding counties managed to escape the worst of it, as Fran turned northwest and vented most of its fury on the Shenandoah Valley (in Luray, the high school football field was flooded to nearly the top of its goalposts).