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Mojito
o the origins of this zingy Caribbean cocktail lie in a medicinal preparation devised in the late 16th century to cure scurvy and dysentery in Francis Drake’s crew? Was it first prepared in the 19th century by enslaved African workers on Cuban sugar-cane plantations using locally distilled aguardiente (literally ‘firewater’, a crude rum)? Or was it created in the Bodeguita del Medio, the Havana bar for which Ernest Hemingway reputedly made a beeline
