Daiquiri

The daiquiri is a cocktail made from rum, lime juice and sugar, shaken with ice and strained, taking its name from Daiquiri, a beach and iron mining town near Santiago de Cuba. It is traditionally credited to an American mining engineer working in Cuba in the early twentieth century, who is said to have combined local rum with lime and sugar when other ingredients ran short. The daiquiri became closely associated with Havana bar culture through the mid twentieth century and later gave rise to widely popular blended, frozen fruit variations, distinct from the simpler original shaken version, that are now commonly served internationally.