You might not be surprised to learn that the Hurricane cocktail was born in New Orleans, but did you know it’s the product of wartime rationing and resourcefulness? Did you also know the city on the bayou claims one of the world’s oldest cocktails—a blend created by a 19th-century ancestor of cocktail historian Phil Greene? Join Greene and Chris McMillian, a master mixologist from the Big Easy, both of whom are founding members of the Museum of the American Cocktail, for a literal taste of New Orleans via the libations it made famous. Learn and taste how the underappreciated Vieux Carre cocktail represents the history and demographics of the French Quarter of the 1930s. Learn (and shake your way through) the history and assembly of a Ramos gin fizz, following directions from the “Louisiana Kingfish,” Huey Long. From the Sazerac to the mint julep, you will see—and taste—how history lives on in the ways we eat and drink.

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