Daiquiri
Mr. Jennings Cox, an American engineer is said to have created the Daiquiri in Cuba in 1896. The story goes that Cox, an engineer at a mine near Santiago set about creating a drink with the only ingredients that he had to hand; rum, limes, and sugar.
The resulting concoction was 'exquisite' and Cox named the drink the 'Daiquiri', after a nearby port. Ernest Hemingway, hardened Daiquiri drinker and Nobel Prize winning author, wrote about the frozen Daiquiri in the posthumously published 'Islands in the Stream' where the protagonist Thomas Hudson stares deep into his frozen Daiquiri, observing that 'It reminded him of the sea. The frapped part of the drink was like the wake of a ship and the clear part was the way the water looked when the bow cut it when you were in shallow water over marl bottom. That was almost the exact colour'.
