Cocktail of the Week: the Hurricane

A mainstay of Pat O'Brien's NOLA bar, it's easy to make at home

If you don’t have a souvenir hurricane glass from Pat O’Brien’s in a cabinet somewhere, it means you probably never made it to New Orleans in your twenties. Pat O’Brien’s bar in the French Quarter claims to be the birthplace of the fruity rum cocktail; if not, it certainly made it famous. But just who was Pat O’Brien?

Like a lot of legal bar owners, Pat …