The Sazerac Bar
There are drinking establishments that have an ambiance based on tradition and history. Then there’s the Sazerac Bar. Its name and lineage is entangled not only with the signature drink of its home city — even the Louisiana legislature has recognized the Sazerac as the official beverage of the city of New Orleans — but a drink that is also considered the world’s first cocktail. If that were not enough, in the days of the infamous Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long — the “Kingfish” — it was widely referred to as “Huey’s office.”
Coquetier – a distilled liquor mixed with flavoring ingredients
Once upon a time, in about 1838, a New Orleans chemist with an adventurous spirit by the name of Antoine Amedie Peychaud began making a concoction, a kind of Brandy toddy — by 1850 the drink was being made with Sazerac French Brandy — and used an egg cup to in making and/or serving it. This item was a coquetier, pronounced “ko-k-tay,” and it’s how we ended up with the word cocktail, whose modern meaning Merriam-Webster describes as a drink of “distilled liquor mixed with flavoring ingredients.”

Photo Credits: The Roosevelt Hotel
www.therooseveltneworleans.com
Originally posted 2017-05-11 12:23:05.