![]() ![]() “She’s from Mexico, Señores, and her name is the Margarita Cocktail. The first time the Margarita recipe appeared in print was 1953, in the pages of Esquire Magazine. Some people even started putting a salt rim on the glass, since the Daisy is a close cousin to the Sidecar, which has a sugar rim, and everybody knew that you drank tequila with salt back then.Īs for the name, as it turns out, the Spanish word for the Daisy flower is actually “Margarita”. “The customer was so delighted that he called for another and spread the good news far and wide.” By the mid-1930s, the tequila daisy was all over Mexico and was spreading to Los Angeles. He told a reporter in 1936, “I grabbed the wrong bottle”-the tequila bottle. No matter what base spirit you used, the Daisy was made with lemon juice and orange liqueur mixed with soda.Īccording to Wondrich, at some point in the mid-1920s, a customer walked up to Henry Madden, the bartender at the Turf Bar in Tijuana and asked for a Gin Daisy. The original Daisy was made with Whiskey, but most cocktails back then were seen as guidelines that could be made with any liquor you wanted. All of these stories sound plausible-ish but none of them have any real proof.Ĭocktail historian David Wondrich agrees that they have the timeframe right, 30s/40s, but that rather than being named after some unknown Margaret, the margarita is actually named after an older classic cocktail from the 1860s or 70s called a Daisy. One story even says that the Margarita was named after actress Rita Hayworth (whose real name was Margarita Casino). There are countless stories about tequila drinks being created in the 1930s or 40s to impress some anecdotal woman named Margaret, or Maggie, or Marjorie. Of course, Like most classic cocktails, the origin story of the margarita is a bit tough to nail down. ![]() For more information, visit the museum’s Web site at or call (202) 633-1000.The margarita, Mexico’s classic Tequila sour, is one of the best-known cocktails in the world. The museum is located at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue N.W., and is open daily from 10 a.m. ![]() Collections are displayed in exhibitions that interpret the American experience from Colonial times to the present. The National Museum of American History traces American heritage through exhibitions of social, cultural, scientific and technological history. Martinez continued serving his famous margaritas for the next 34 years, eventually retiring the original machine in favor of the new mass-produced machines. Tex-Mex is now an American favorite and margaritas are a standard together with salsa and tortilla chips. Martinez incidentally developed his machine at the forefront of the Tex-Mex food movement. “People came to Mariano’s for that frozen margarita out of the machine.” “Improved consistency, overall better product and ease of use due to the frozen margarita machine, made the drink so popular that it brought bars in Tex-Mex restaurants front and center,” said Martinez. Frozen margaritas have been around since the invention of the blender in the 1930s but bartenders were often overwhelmed when demand was high, and the blenders produced margaritas of varying quality and consistency. Prompted by increased customer demand, the young restaurant owner was inspired by a frozen drink machine he saw at a local convenience store. More than 30 years ago, Martinez modified a soft-serve ice cream machine into the first frozen margarita machine, which created a mass-produced and consistent beverage. “This story is told through many of our collections, revolutionary or mundane, from the light bulb to the can opener.” “The invention of the frozen margarita machine is a classic example of the American entrepreneurial spirit,” said museum director Brent D. The machine will join hundreds of other innovations in the museum’s collections, including Tupperware wonder bowls and a Krispy Kreme Ring King. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History announced today that it has acquired the world’s first frozen margarita machine, invented on by Dallas restaurateur Mariano Martinez. ![]()
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