Mojito local tropical ingredients: lime, sugarcane juice, and mint. Lime juice on its own would have significantly prevented scurvy and dysentery, and tafia/rum was soon added as it became widely available to the British (ca. 1650). Mint, lime and sugar were also helpful in hiding the harsh taste of this spirit. While this drink was not called a Mojito at this time, it was the original combination of these ingredients. Some historians contend that African slaves who worked in the Cuban sugar cane fields during the 19th century were instrumental in the cocktail's origin. Guarapo, the sugar cane juice often used
Rebecca A. Herb Rebecca A. Herb Rebecca A. Herb (born 1948) is an American mathematician, a professor emerita at the University of Maryland. Her research involves abstract algebra and Lie groups. In 2012, Herb became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society. In 2013, she was one of ten recipients of the first Service Awards of the Association for Women in Mathematics. Herb earned her Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of Washington under the supervision of Garth William Warner, Jr. From 2004 until 2012 (when she was succeeded by Ellen Kirkman) Herb was treasurer of the Association for Women