HE IMMEDIATE CONCEPTION of this cocktail, the Blackberry Lemonade Margarita, came from COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns. The Southern Hotel and the Cypress Bar had shut down, and my lead bartender and I started doing Facebook Lives for an hour on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. In the beginning, the videos were largely instructional, showing how to do infusions and making cocktails out of them. Pretty early on, viewers were asking what
