Cosmopolitan

Origins

Three people can legitimately lay claim to creating the Cosmopolitan. Bartender Cheryl Cook came up with the original formula in 1985 when she worked at a bar called The Strand in Miami’s South Beach. She used “Absolut Citron, a splash of triple sec, a drop of Rose’s Lime Juice and just enough cranberry to make it oh so pretty in pink and topped [it] with a curled lemon twist.” <br/>
Not long after that, in New York City, <a href=”http://www.gazregan.com/2012/11/cocktail-book/the-birth-of-the-cosmopolitan/” target=”_blank”>Toby Cecchini</a>, who was working behind the stick at The Odeon restaurant in TriBeCa, tweaked the recipe by replacing the Rose’s with fresh lime juice. <a href=”http://www.kingcocktail.com/” target=”_blank”>Dale DeGroff</a> did more or less the exact same thing at the famed Rainbow Room. Both of these joints catered to celebrities, and the drink really took off.