We receive our friends at home to celebrate lunches and dinners, but another alternative that is very fun is to organize an afternoon of cocktails for them, a meeting where our guests can enjoy very suggestive drinks that encourage conversation. A good idea is to always accompany them with background music. Nothing better than listening to Cole Porter as a soundtrack, while you sip a Gimlet, a Manhattan or a Martini, which will surely taste better.
For those who prefer a long glass or a non-alcoholic drink, we will place the soft drinks and fruit juices in a large champagne bucket with ice to keep them cold, while we will keep the champagne in a vat. In addition, we will have an ice bucket with ice and a cocktail shaker, with its spoons, rods and measures with which to prepare the drinks.
To conveniently present the cocktails, we must have some bowls with slices of lemon, orange and another with cherries to be able to garnish the drinks in order to give them this characteristic final touch. In another container we will place fresh herbs, such as mint, which we can use to give the final touch to some of the glasses.
It is advisable to accompany the drinks with a good assortment of snacks of different types to mitigate the effects of alcohol and which we will have in various locations in the room.
Cocktails are as old as our civilization, since the first known one was prepared by Hippocrates, 2,500 years ago, when he made a drink based on wine, resin and bitter almonds, which was both a restorative and a pleasant potion.
The modern cocktail was born in the United States at the end of the 19th century, although the Savoy bar in London soon became a reference. In Spain, a Cuban who had worked at El Floridita named Boadas, introduced him to Barcelona, ??opening his establishment next to Las Ramblas. Today, cocktail hour is a way to get the party started.
