The World's Best Margarita

August, 1998

The World's Best MargaritaMargarita Sames, a retired Texan, says she whipped up the first margarita in Acapulco during the late Forties. Other claims to authorship include those made by Tommy's Bar in Juárez, Bertito's Bar in Taxco and the Rancho La Gloria in Tijuana. It hardly matters, except maybe to Sames. What you really need to know is where to find--and how to make--a great margarita, the kind that puckers your lips and gently erases the line between the left and right sides of your brain....