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How To Ask For Anything and Everything & The Unusual History of Ice

Something You Should Know

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The Origins of Cocktails

There is evidence that people were mixing ice with spirits hundreds of years ago. Tudor likely did it himself in Massachusetts, but what really launched kind of the idea of the classic American cocktail was when Tudor brought ice to New Orleans. By the 1860s, we are starting to see the first celebrity bartenders in America who are making drinks named after themselves.

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