A Pisco Sour is a cocktail typical of South American cuisine. The
drink's name is a combination of the word pisco, which is its base
liquor, and the term sour, in reference to sour citrus juice and
sweetener components. Chile and Peru both claim the Pisco Sour as their
national drink, and each asserts exclusive ownership of both pisco and
the cocktail. The Peruvian Pisco Sour uses Peruvian pisco as the base
liquor and adds Key lime (or lemon) juice, syrup, ice, egg white, and
Angostura bitters. The Chilean version is similar, but uses Chilean
pisco, Pica lemon, and excludes the bitters and egg white. The cocktail
was invented by Victor Vaughn Morris, an American bartender working in
Peru in the early 1920s. In Chile, the invention of the drink is
attributed to Elliot Stubb, an English ship steward, at a bar in the
port city of Iquique in 1872, although the source for this attributed
the invention of the Whiskey Sour to Stubb, not the Pisco Sour. The two
kinds of pisco and the two variations in the style of preparing the
Pisco Sour are distinct in both production and taste, and the Pisco Sour
has become a significant and oft-debated topic of Latin American popular
culture.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisco_Sour>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1240:
Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander
Nevsky defeated the Swedes on the Neva River near Ust-Izhora, present-
day Russia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Neva>
1799:
French soldiers uncovered the Rosetta Stone in Fort Julien,
near the Egyptian port city of Rashid.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone>
1815:
Aboard HMS Bellerophon (pictured), Napoleon surrendered to
Royal Navy Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland to finally end the
Napoleonic Wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bellerophon_(1786)>
1959:
Five hundred thousand American steelworkers went on strike,
closing nearly every steel mill in the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_strike_of_1959>
1983:
Armenian extremist organization ASALA bombed the Turkish
Airlines check-in counter at Orly Airport as part of its campaign for
the recognition of and reparations for the Armenian Genocide.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orly_Airport_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
effluvium:
A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/effluvium>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned
toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single
catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in
front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and
make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from
Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the
angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into
the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before
him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
--Walter Benjamin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin>