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2 unusual facts about Cocktail


Dale DeGroff

DeGroff is the founder and president of The Museum of the American Cocktail, the first museum in the world dedicated to education in mixology and preserving the rich history of the American cocktail and has been credited with reinventing the profession of bartending and setting off a cocktail explosion around the world.

Daniel R. Scoggin

The film, "Cocktail", starring Tom Cruise, was based on Friday's bartender flair.


2012 Bain murder-kidnappings

On the night of April 26, Adam attempted to kill the girls' father, Gary Bain, by giving him two Tequila Sunrise cocktails laced with Visine and other prescription drugs.

Aby Tom Cyriac

He had been part of several well-received movies such as Cocktail, Seniors, Casanovva, Mayamohini, Mallu Singh, I Love Me, Kammath & Kammath, Emmanuel, Sound Thoma, Sringaravelan etc and these are only some of films he was part of.

Ardhanareeswaran

Actor Vikram was chosen to play the lead role but had to drop the film due to clash of dates, Jayasurya was chosen after the director watched Jayasurya's performance in Cocktail.

Attention

Modern research on attention began with the analysis of the "cocktail party problem" by Colin Cherry in 1953.

Aussie Ladette to Lady

By week's end they will host a cocktail party and entertain some of England's most eligible bachelors, which included young etiquette expert William Hanson.

Brennan Family Restaurants

In 1993, John Grisham's book-to-movie, "The Firm" featured Owen Brennan's in a business lunch meeting between Tom Cruise & Gene Hackman in cocktail area of the restaurant.

Bryan Brown

He starred in several international productions including Tai-Pan with Joan Chen, Gorillas in the Mist with Sigourney Weaver, and Cocktail with Tom Cruise.

Café de Paris

--*Café de Paris (Vilnius), bar/cafeteria/cocktail restaurant on Didžioji Street, near Pilies Street in Lithuanian capital's historic Old Town; established in 1994; popular as bohemian-style "hangout" for students, artists and tourists -->

Campari

Campari is an essential ingredient in the classic Negroni cocktail, the Garibaldi cocktail, and in the Americano, which was named at a time when few Americans were aware of Campari.

Carlo Ascanio Lanzillotti

He is brother-in-law of Donato Antone, creator of the Harvey Wallbanger cocktail, grandfather of Christopher Lanzillotti, a New York Sun columnist and New York County Republican District Leader, great-uncle of Paul Lanzillotti, a MBA admissions consultant, author and creator of the Business School Selector.

Chimayó Cocktail

The Chimayó cocktail was created by Arturo Jaramillo, owner of the Rancho de Chimayó restaurant in Chimayó, New Mexico in 1965, the Chimayó Cocktail is a tequila and apple cider based drink.

Chris Pendergast

During part-time bar work at the Crowne Plaza Glasgow, Finneston, Pendergast developed the cocktail the Govana Libre, which was named after his place of birth.

Clamato

It is also referred to colloquially as "clamato juice." Clamato was produced in its current form beginning in 1966 by the Duffy-Mott company in Hamlin, New York, by two employees who wanted to create a Manhattan clam chowder style cocktail by combining tomato juice and clam broth with spices.

Cocktail sauce

The common form of cocktail sauce in Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, France and Belgium, usually consists of mayonnaise mixed with a tomato sauce to the same pink color as prawns, producing a result that could be compared to fry sauce.

Crème de menthe

Crème de menthe is used as an ingredient in several cocktails, such as the Grasshopper and the Stinger, and is also served as an after-dinner drink and can be used in food recipes as a flavoring (see Mint chocolate).

Diamantina Cocktail

A "diamantina cocktail" is a drink invented in the area of the Diamantina River in Queensland, Australia.

Environmental liability directive

Firewater is the runoff when you have a fire, this is a cocktail of water, foam and whatever you were storing.

For Darfur

In November 2007, For Darfur, in conjunction with fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer, held a fundraising cocktail party and auction in Palm Beach, Florida, and raised over $100,000.

Frank Pastore

Shortly after he was released by the Rangers, Pastore set a new record at the The Big Texan Steak Ranch restaurant in Amarillo, Texas by eating a meal of 72-ounce ribeye steak, salad, baked potato, shrimp cocktail, and roll in 9 minutes, 30 seconds.

Franks Wild Years

William Schimmel - piano, pump organ, accordion, Leslie bass pedals, cocktail piano

Golden Cadillac

This cocktail originated in Poor Red's Bar-B-Q in the town of El Dorado, California.

Happy hour

When the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act were passed banning alcohol consumption, people would host "cocktail hours", also known as "happy hours", at a speakeasy (an illegal drinking establishment) before eating at restaurants where alcohol could not be served.

Horse's Neck

In the 1935 Fred Astaire movie Top Hat, Helen Broderick orders "un altro Horse’s Neck" in a stylized Venetian canal cocktail lounge.

Hotel Bolívar

In the 1940s and 1950s, the hotel attracted Hollywood movie stars such as Orson Welles, Ava Gardner, and John Wayne, where many also discovered the local cocktail, the Pisco Sour.

Insurgency weapons and tactics

A Molotov cocktail is a breakable glass bottle containing a flammable substance such as gasoline/petrol or a napalm-like mixture, with some motor oil added, and usually a source of ignition such as a burning cloth wick held in place by the bottle's stopper.

Iris Clert Gallery

A blue cocktail was also served, a combination of gin, Cointreau, and methylene blue, which, much to Klein’s surprise and delight, caused his patrons to urinate blue the next day.

Leonard Tose

Mr. Tose flew to Eagles home games in a helicopter, was married aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth 2 and fed reporters filet mignon and shrimp cocktail.

Lillet

In Ian Fleming's 1953 novel Casino Royale, James Bond invents and orders a Kina Lillet martini, which he named the "Vesper" after his love interest in the story.

Mana Bar

The Mana Bar is a collaboration between Guy "Yug" Blomberg, co-creator of Australian Gamer; Pras Moorthy, senior designer at The Creative Assembly; video game critic Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw; and Shay Leighton, creative director of local cocktail bar The Bowery.

Marcis Dzelzainis

Marcis informed the judges that this cocktail was an hommage to Serge Gainsbourg, calling it the Gainsbourg Daisy.

Margarita

Another common origin tale begins the cocktail’s history at the legendary Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas where, in 1948, head bartender Santos Cruz created the Margarita for singer Peggy (Margaret) Lee.

Moloko Plus

The Moloko Plus, also called Knifey Moloko is a highball cocktail drink from the book A Clockwork Orange.

New Market, Maryland

John Vincent Atanasoff, Bulgarian-American inventor, created the first binary computer, Atanasoff–Berry Computer, writing the concept in 1937 on a cocktail napkin after having a few glasses of scotch whiskey.

Oz and Hugh Drink to Christmas

Oz and Hugh Drink to Christmas is a BBC television programme in which wine personality Oz Clarke and comedian Hugh Dennis travel through Britain to sample a wide array of seasonal Christmas beverages, including whisky, winter ales, mulled wine, wassail, sloe gin, Buck's Fizz, Port wine and Sherry.

Pascal Olivier Count de Negroni

In addition to his military accomplishments, Pascal Olivier has been credited with inventing the famous “Negroni Cocktail” (equal parts of Campari, Gin, and Sweet Vermouth, served in a short glass over ice and garnished with an orange slice).

Pride of Manchester Awards

ManchesterBars.com Award for Best Cocktail in Manchester - Cloud 23 - Ena Sharples

Radioimmunoprecipitation assay buffer

Protease inhibitors such as PMSF or cocktail protease inhibitors which are commercially available (use according to the manufacturer's guide)

Sazerac

A Sazerac cocktail features prominently in an episode of the TV series Treme when chef Janette Desautel (played by Kim Dickens) tosses one in the face of restaurant critic and food writer Alan Richman (appearing as himself).

The Museum of the American Cocktail

The current Board of Directors include Dale DeGroff (president), Jill DeGroff (vice president), Robert Hess (secretary), Ted Haigh (curator; aka “Dr. Cocktail”), Phil Greene (treasurer), Tim McNally, Brenda Maitland, Ti Martin, Chris McMillian, and Laura McMillian.

Tomato juice

His combination of squeezed tomatoes, sugar and his special sauce became an instant success as Chicago businessmen spread the word about the tomato juice cocktail.

Tschunk

The cocktail was originally served in the "Club Forschung" (German for research club) in Rosenthaler Straße, Berlin.

Vladimir Kagan

Early work included furniture for the Delegate's Cocktail Lounge at the United Nations and furniture for the "Monsanto House of the Future" at Disneyland.

Volcano bowl

The Flaming Volcano cocktail is especially associated with this drinkware.

Wonderfalls

The DVD set includes all 13 episodes; six commentary tracks by creators Todd Holland and Bryan Fuller, and actors Caroline Dhavernas and Katie Finneran on "Wax Lion", "Crime Dog", "Lovesick Ass", "Safety Canary", "Cocktail Bunny" (with Scotch Ellis Loring) and "Caged Bird"; a behind-the-scenes documentary, an examination of the show's visual effects, and a music video produced for the theme song, "I Wonder Why the Wonderfalls" by Andy Partridge.

X-Kaliber 2097

In combat, Cocktail uses his cane like a sword and can throw his hat like a flying blade (similar to Oddjob of the James Bond movies).


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