Happy National Daiquiri Day: Recipe & History

by Melody Kettle

*Photo Credit: http://archive.blisstree.com/feel/classic-cocktails-for-your-summer-parties/You know it's going to be a good day when it's National Daiquiri Day!  Few libations say "chill out" quite like this classic rum cocktail. 

According to CHOW:

 The original daiquiri was a mixture of rum, lime, and sugar, served over ice. Yet another product of late-19th-century imperialism, the daiquiri was first recorded in a Cuban mining town of the same name. Although the locals had probably been knocking back rum and lime for years, in 1886 an American engineer, James Cox, and a Cuban engineer named Pagliuchi refined the rum and lime drink by adding cane sugar.

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Classic Fried Chicken Recipe

by Elizabeth Palmer Starnes in ,

For a girl who does most of her grocery shopping at Whole Foods, the idea of buying the requisite can of Crisco to fry chicken was a little out of my comfort zone.  But once I scooped the frosting-like white fluff out of the can and heated it in my big Le Creuset, it bubbled up and cooked the chicken to golden brown perfection.
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