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 and Pica lemon, and excludes the bitters and egg white. The
cocktail was invented by Victor Vaughen 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:
1789:
French Revolution: Members of the Third Estate took the Tennis
Court Oath (depicted), pledging not to separate until a new French
constitution was created.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_Court_Oath>
1921:
Workers at the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in Madras, India,
began a four-month strike.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921_Buckingham_and_Carnatic_Mills_strike>
1943:
The Royal Air Force launched Operation Bellicose, the first
shuttle-bombing raid of the Second World War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bellicose>
1975:
Steven Spielberg's film Jaws was released, which became the
prototypical summer blockbuster and established the modern Hollywood
business model.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_%28film%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
steatopygous:
(physiology) Pertaining to steatopygia; having fat or prominent
buttocks.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/steatopygous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Two hearts, Two hearts that beat as one Our lives have just
begun.
--Lionel Richie
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lionel_Richie>