#78 Cocktail: Cosmopolitan

    According to the International Bartenders Association the original recipe is based on vodka citron, lemon-flavored vodka. The cosmopolitan is a relative of cranberry coolers like the Cape Codder. Though often presented far differently, the cosmopolitan also bears a likeness in composition to the kamikaze cocktail.
    The origin of the cosmopolitan is disputed. It is widely believed that the drink was created independently by different bartenders since the 1970's. Generally, people have recognized that John Caine brought the drink to San Francisco around 1987 from Ohio. The same year in Manhattan, the internationally recognized version of the cocktail was created by Bradley Umane, based on a poorly described version of Cheryl Cook's creation. According to Sally Ann Berk and Bob Sennett, the cosmopolitan appears in literature as early as 1993 and derives from New York.
    The Cosmopolitan gained popularity in the 1990s. According to Brian Gougherty, the cosmo was further popularized among young women by its frequent mention on the television program Sex and the City, whereSarah Jessica Parker's character, Carrie Bradshaw, commonly ordered the drink when out with her girlfriends. The film adaptation made a reference to its popularity when Miranda asks why they stopped drinking them, Carrie replies "because everyone else started."

1 1/2 ounce citrus flavored vodka

1 ounce triple sec

1/2 fresh lime juice

1 or 2 dashes cranberry juice

#46 Cocktail: Bay Breeze

   The cocktail was born in the late 1920s, but the recipe was different from the one used today, as gin and grenadine were used in the original . This was near the end of the Prohibition era. In the 1930s, a  had gin, apricot brandy, grenadine, and lemon juice. Later, recipe would contain vodka, dry vermouth, Galliano, and blue Curaçao.
  The cranberry grower's cooperative in the 1930s evolved into Ocean Spray which marketed cranberry juice in the 1950s. Cranberry juice was used as a mixer with alcohol, first with gin and later with vodka. The Harpoon, later called the Cape Codder, was born, and its descendants such as the Greyhound, the Salty Dog, the Bay Breeze, and the Sea Breeze were later created. Starting in the 1960s, the breeze drinks were sporadically in the top ten most popular mixed drinks.
   According to some, the Sea Breeze, along with the Cape Codder and Bay Breeze, did not become very popular until the 1970s. This was because in 1959, the U.S. Department of Health stated that cranberry crops were tainted with toxic herbicides, collapsing the cranberry industry.

2 ounces light rum

1 1/2 ounce cranberry juice

1 1/2 pineapple juice