The Mojito
Feb 03, 2020
1 minute
The mojito’s origins are in Cuba, that much is for sure. But although bar La Bodeguita del Medio in Havana lays claim to its creation, it’s more likely it by slaves on the sugarcane fields or based Sir on a Francis drink that Drake was ’ s ship popularised when passing on through Havana. He was meant to sack the Spanish of their treasures, but instead he gave them liquid gold. More recently, Ernest Hemingway would relieve the heat of Cuba with this refreshingly minty drink. It was a refinement of the mint-sugar-rum-and-lime ‘el Draque’, or ‘Drake’, and was first recorded in the 1930s.
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