This drink has been making the rounds for a while, and it highlights the 90’s as one of the best drinks of its time. Although the day itself was coined by freelancer writer, Jace Shoemaker-Galloway, who writes about non-traditional holidays, the history of the Cosmo itself is very murky. It seems that some researchers think that the first tracked origins of the Cosmopolitan drink go back to the late nineteenth century, where a cocktail known as the Daisy emerged as a drink with a recipe that called for spirit, sweetener and citrus. Although this isn’t exactly a Cosmo, it is easy to see how Daisy might be a distant ancestor. A more direct line for the origins of this drink hails back to the year 1968, when Ocean Spray, one of the main cranberry companies in the United States, wanted to advertise cranberry juice to adults. At the time they named the drink “The Harpoon” and it called for an ounce of vodka, an ounce of cranberry juice, and a squeeze of lime. While this was certainly closer to the Cosmo recipe, it was still missing the Cointreau and/or Triple Sec. There is a legend that credits the invention of the drink to a bartender named Toby Cecchini, who made the drink while working at the famous and trendy Odeon bar in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood in 1987. The Cosmopolitan’s popularity spread into celebrity culture, and it eventually ended up in The Rainbow Room, where Madonna is pictured drinking it at an after-party for the Grammy Awards. Even after that it was still a bit obscure until it was brought into mainstream culture by the famous television show Sex and the City, where it appeared multiple times throughout the series. #CosmopolitanDay #RacketOfTheDay #CustomMade #TennisRacket #BreakTheTie #breaktothefuture (em Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdP54yzAGEr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
