Neal MurrayĮncouraged by a couple of college mates, in 1975, while studying political science at the University of Minnesota, Neal Murray (then aged 24) took his first bartending position at the Cork 'n Cleaver Steakhouse in Golden Valley. When the Cosmopolitan went what today we would call "viral" from Sex and the City, Cook just assumed that the show's costume designers, Patricia Field and Rebecca Weinburg were responsible for introducing the cocktail to the writers because Field and Weinburg were regulars of hers. She vividly remembers serving Madonna and Sandra Bernhard-many times. To quote Miss Charming's book, Cook served many celebrities and had many stories. (A popular phrase at the time from the 1986 film Pretty in Pink.)Ĭheryl, helped by The Strand's owner, Gary Farmer, named her new drink after a March 1989 copy of Cosmopolitan Magazine which featured an article on The Strand and the hostess titled "The Maître d' is a Ms." The magazine had a pink cover and the hostess proudly showed the issue to everyone who came into the restaurant. She based her drink on the newly available Absolut Citron vodka which launched in 1989 and added a splash of triple sec, a dash of Rose's lime and, in her own words, "just enough cranberry to make it oh so pretty in pink". Their names are Melissa Huffsmith and Toby Cecchini.Īnd then, there's Dale "King Cocktail" DeGroff who independently upgraded the Cosmopolitan." Cheryl CookĬheryl Cook has a well-supported claim to have invented the Cosmopolitan Cocktail while head bartender at The Strand on Washington Avenue, South Beach, Miami. Then, two New York City bartenders claim to be the first to have upgraded the Cosmopolitan recipe by using quality ingredients, however, only one of them has been credited. These bartenders are Neal Murray and Cheryl Cook. ![]() In 1970, the company updated its recipe to also list gin as a possible base spirit.īartender and author Cheryl Charming (AKA Miss Charming), who has researched the origins of the Cosmopolitan, discounts both of the above in her 2018 The Cocktail Companion, asserting "that two bartenders, at two different times (fourteen years apart), in two different cities (1800 miles apart) created a cocktail with almost identical ingredients and both named their creation - Cosmopolitan. Ocean Spray's recipe also suggests adding an optional splash of lime or lemon. A 1968 bottle label from Ocean Spray's archives lists the Harpoon as a "new cocktail" with a recipe specifying 2 ounces Ocean Spray cranberry and 1 ounce vodka or light rum served "over the rocks or tall with soda". This 1934 pale pink Cosmopolitan is not a bad cocktail.Īnother candidate as an ancestor of the modern-day Cosmopolitan is the Harpoon Cocktail, a drink promoted by Ocean Spray during the 1960s. Interestingly, and perhaps tellingly, four of the five Cosmopolitans in Pioneers of Mixing have a red/pink appearance, the one above due to raspberry syrup. This book features five very different cocktails named Cosmopolitan, but the following recipe, shown in the book as an example of a Daisy, includes triple sec and is very similar to today's Cosmopolitan, only with lemon in place of lime, gin in place of vodka and raspberry syrup in place of cranberry. The first reference to a Cosmopolitan cocktail appears in the 1934 book Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars: 1903-1933. Neal's Barbados Cosmopolitan (with rum).Grand Cosmopolitan (with Grand Marnier). ![]() No added sugar & low-calorie Cosmopolitan.The extra fruitiness from the increased triple sec and cranberry means this recipe also works best with unflavoured vodka so is useful if citrus flavoured vodka's not to hand. In my Cosmopolitan recipe I use equal parts vodka and triple sec with more cranberry juice than most. ![]() During the 1990s, the familiar blend of cranberry, citrus and vodka was one of the most popular cocktails in New York and London. The Cosmopolitan is one of those cocktails that has had various incarnations through the ages - some of them, quite probably, independent of one another.
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