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.
Virginiaâs general assembly met at Middle Plantation (Wil-liamsburg) and decided to make it the new capital in 1699. By how many years does Jamestown, Virginia predate the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts? Jamestown was established in 1607, 13 years earlier than Plymouth. The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth to establish a colony in âNorth-ern Virginiaâ in December 1620. By this time, tobacco was Virginiaâs cash crop, the first Africans had arrived and representative government had been established in Virginia. Historical background materials made possible by Archibald Andrews Marks.