Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Cocktail of the Week: The Sazerac Plus

Cocktail of the Week: The Sazerac Plus

The first real cocktail is still a favorite in New Orleans

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Feb 09, 2022
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Louisiana, home of the Big Easy and, during the 1920s and 1930s, the notoriously corrupt and high life lover Huey Long, never bothered to enforce Prohibition. In fact, Louisiana is the only southern state that had not already banned alcohol when national Prohibition was ratified in 1919.

The Sazerac is touted in New Orleans as the first real cocktail an…

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