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
Bicycle Kitchen (Los Angeles) to 5 p.m. Tuesday: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday: CLOSED Saturday: 12-4 p.m. The name "bicycle kitchen" is a version of the more common term "bike kitchen" which is a popular name among community bicycle organizations. However the LA Bicycle Kitchen has played no small part in popularizing the name throughout the globe in the past decade. The origins of Los Angeles' Bicycle Kitchen date back to 2002, when a tiny bicycle repair workshop was set up in an unused apartment in an intentional community known as the Los Angeles