Ryhito Ryhito Ryhito is a variation on the traditional Cuban cocktail. The ryhito brings Asian influences to a traditionally Cuban or American drink with the addition of both ginger and pear flavors. While the mojito is traditionally made of five ingredients: rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime, carbonated water and mint, the ryhito reduces the amount of lime in favour of fresh diced ginger and fresh pureed pear. The ginger and pear give two distinct flavour stages. The creator claims that the ginger gives an initial kick to the drink while the pear rounds out the flavour and provides a
Rum Swizzle Rum Swizzles originated on the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts. American naturalist and writer Frederick Albion Ober noted in 1920 that the great drink of the Barbados ice houses was the swizzle, a combination of liquors, sugar, and ice whisked to a froth by a rapidly revolved "swizzle-stick" made from the stem of a native plant, perhaps "Quararibea turbinata" (the "swizzlestick tree") or an allspice bush. The etymology of the word "swizzle" is unknown, but it may derive from a similar beverage known as switchel. Rum Swizzles were the drink of choice at what was purportedly the world's first cocktail