El Floridita is a historic fish restaurant and cocktail bar in the older part of Havana, Cuba. The owner is credited for inventing the frozen daiquiri in the early 1930s, so his motto his bar was "la cuna del daiquiri" (the cradle of the daiquiri).

It was at El Floridita that Ernest Hemingway was introduced to this concoction, but was put off by the sweetness. Instead, he asked for a drink “with ½ the sugar and twice the rum!” They experimented with several versions and his favorite is what is known today as the Hemingway Daiquiri, which I will make in this Episode.

This shaken cocktail with a combination of light rum (Havana Club if you have it), fresh squeezed lime and grapefruit juices, and Luxardo maraschino liqueur makes for an interesting, dry, and complex cocktail. The drink is served up in a chilled cocktail glass.

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
–Ernest Hemingway

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