Daiquiri possible that William A. Chanler, a US congressman who purchased the Santiago iron mines in 1902, introduced the daiquiri to clubs in New York in that year. Originally the drink was served in a tall glass packed with cracked ice. A teaspoon of sugar was poured over the ice and the juice of one or two limes was squeezed over the sugar. Two or three ounces of white rum completed the mixture. The glass was then frosted by stirring with a long-handled spoon. Later the daiquiri evolved to be mixed in a shaker with the same ingredients but with shaved
Death in the Afternoon (cocktail) sugar cube and several dashes of bitters be added to the glass prior to the main ingredients. The cocktail is milky in appearance on account of the spontaneous emulsification of the absinthe (or substitute), and bubbly, which it takes from the Champagne. After the first sip, however, it becomes significantly less bubbly. Harold McGee, dining and wine writer for "The New York Times", said that it "seemed a waste of effervescence" (though substituting Pernod for the absinthe). Death in the Afternoon (cocktail) Death in the Afternoon, also called the Hemingway or the Hemingway Champagne, is a cocktail made up of