Margaritas!

The first time I had a margarita I was at in Huntington Beach. Ohh.. this place is good. This is a great place to meet up with friends, come for a great meal with family, or even enjoy the drinks while watching the ball game. We love to go there. My family and I like to go especialy during the winter months. Your guaranteed not to wait for a table. So, at Freds I got the Margaritaville Gold Rita. Its probably the only one I've had that I can say will truely knock me on my ass. If anyone is interested, Freds is located at PCH and Main Street.

So began my love affair with lime and salt in a wonderful concoction called the Margarita. Interestingly enough, Margarita is latin for pearl... who says diamonds are a girls best friend? Now here are some interesting things about who may have created the Margarita.

Danny Negrete, 1936
According to Salvador Negrete, the son of Daniel Negrete, the family story goes that Daniel opened a bar at the Garci Crispo hotel with his brother, David. The day before David's marriage, Daniel presented the margarita as a wedding present to margarita, his sister-in-law.
It was a combination of one-third Triple Sec, one-third tequila and one-third squeezed Mexican lime juice. The drink was not blended and was served with hand-crushed ice.

Francisco 'Pancho' Morales, 4th of July, 1942
In Texas, a bartender, Pancho Morales invented the margarita on July 4, 1942, at a Juárez bar named Tommy's Place. Supposedly, a woman requested a Magnolia (brandy, Cointreau, and an egg yolk topped with Champagne). Morales was a little fuzzy on the recipe; he improvised and his ersatz creation was a big hit.

Carlos ”Danny” Herrera, 1947–48
Carlos "Danny" Herrera mixed a jigger of white tequila with lemon juice and Triple Sec, creating a smooth and salty concoction he named "margarita", in October/November of 1947/1948
The bar was Rancho La Gloria, midway on the old road that connected Tijuana with Rosarito Beach. A showgirl and sometime actress who called herself Marjorie King was one of the customers, who was allergic to hard liquor, except for tequila, but she didn't like to drink it straight or even with a lemon and salt. Mr. Herrera started experimenting and came up with a concoction that was three parts white tequila, two parts Cointreau and one part fresh lemon juice. He added shaved ice and blended the mixture with a hand shaker.

Margaret Sames, December 1948
Sames, who created the drink at her Acapulco bar, gave the reason of being "close with a lot of famous hotel and restaurant people" in introducing the margarita. Sames used one part Cointreau, three parts tequila and one part lime juice for her margarita. Knowing that most people drank tequila preceded by a lick of salt, she chose to garnish her cocktail with a rim of coarse salt.

If you are a fellow crafter who is reading this, I have one word of advice. Well, more than one word. Anyways.. dont drink and craft..dont drink and knit. As I have found out many times because I have forgotten, when you drink a wonderful margarita and are knitting, tomorrow when you go to work on it, you may need to frog the whole damn thing. So lets hope you dont abuse that wonderful French Angora yarn you bought from the 1960's, but havent been brave enough to do anything with.