Shaking Up The Daiquiri

Shaking Up the DaiquiriBy Rights, the daiquiri should be known as the conquistador. It was those Spanish adventurers who first compounded the soothing amalgam of rum, sugar and lime juice--quaffing it from conch shells, on sunny Caribbean shores. It could just as easily be called a rum sour, since that's what a daiquiri is, essentially. But the drink was christened officially around 1900 by a crew of fun-loving American mining engineers in Cuba, who guzzled it to ward off yellow fever. (Or so th...