?The two Sazeracs had loosened her up a little and it looked as if we might become buddies.? ?James L. Rubel, No Business for a… [Read More]The post Celebrate Mardi Gras With The Official Cocktail Of New Orleans (Not a Hurricane) appeared first on Pursuitist.

?The two Sazeracs had loosened her up a little and it looked as if we might become buddies.? ?James L. Rubel, No Business for a Lady, (Gold Medal Books, 1950).I love the Sazerac so intensely it?s nearly hard for me to talk about it. But while I?m working up to it, remember, talking and typing is thirsty work. Please head over to the bar and fetch me one of these elegant and amazing cocktails, which harmonizes resurgent rye with a slip of sweet, a bite of bitters and an altering and awesome addition of now-legal-again absinthe, and then lets itself be tantalized with a touch of lemon oil, sparkling across the top of the drink like stars across the Milky Way. Yes, get me a Sazarac, the official cocktail of New Orleans, to help keep my spirits elevated and my mind working at a pitch only properly described as powerfully pleasant, letting me reach the mountainous tops of speechmaking, a level needed to give appropriate reverie to this king of New Orleans libations. Originally made?so the story goes?with the house Cognac, Sazerac de Forge et Fils, at the Sazerac Coffee House, said Cognac was combined with an elixir made by Saint Dominique transplant Antoine Amadie Peychaud, then, traveling through history until today...