Dickson: Citron was definitely helped by the global popularity of the Cosmopolitan. It was just growing. We did one where we picked 50 classic cocktails and had bartenders do a riff or two off each one. The Cosmopolitan was one of those classics. It was after the financial crisis and things were coming back, and the Cosmopolitan was brightly colored and it got to call itself a Martini. It was big and splashy.
If you held that at a party, you wanted attention. I feel almost certain that Michael Patrick King [director, writer, and executive producer of Sex and the City ] or Darren Star [creator of Sex and the City ] suggested it. Michael does not drink, but I remember he loved the look of the Cosmopolitan—this frothy, rose-colored version of the Martini, the neck of the glass resembling the stiletto of a Manolo Blahnik shoe.
The women having cocktails was such a big part of the show, and the Cosmopolitan just became a part of the fabric. On the show, that was the best time of your life, filled with parties and friendships and clothes.
Drinks were a big part of that. The Cosmopolitan fit well. It was a fun, beautiful drink that matched the aesthetic of the show. We had moved on. Everyone and their mom, tourists visiting, sorority girls, they wanted a Cosmopolitan. I mean, you could get them at bowling alleys. I would go to Paris and London and people were drinking Cosmopolitans. Krader: Sex and the City gave [the Cosmopolitan] a cachet.
It made you feel like you were part of a movement, like you were grown-up, sophisticated and of the moment. Chupack: It was a chicken-and-egg situation. Were we reflecting what women were already doing in New York, or were we starting the cycle of it? I am sure some women were drinking Cosmopolitans, but once it appeared on the show, I think it just became more prevalent. Caine: Bartenders look down on [the Cosmopolitan]. And you still see tons of orders for it in Middle America, and across the world, in places like South America.
It is the first of the modern classic cocktails. Cecchini: It is part of the lexicon of readily acknowledged cocktails. People still come into my bar and order it plenty of times.
Is it a bad thing to ask you? Siue: The White Cosmopolitan is still No. We have seen people try to copy it at many other restaurants. Krader: The thing that is awesome about cocktails right now is that anything goes. It became internationally famous for a variety of reasons, not least of which was that it served as the primary form of sustenance for the four female characters on the HBO series Sex and the City.
But the real importance of the Cosmopolitan is not how it became famous and popular, but that it did become famous and popular.
It is the only cocktail of its era that succeeded in becoming an international household word. The Cosmopolitan alone illustrated that the cocktail could be a thing of today. Toby Cecchini is a querulous skeptic who likes to downplay his profession any chance he gets. Rip Van Winkle-like, he woke up to the revolution he had helped set in motion only when his bar Passerby closed in , and some of his younger colleagues dragged him out of the shadows and set him up as an idol and forefather.
Young bartenders respected his veteran status and his writings including the memoir Cosmopolitan. But they hated the drink he created — on principle. Struck by some Oedipal urge, they sought to kill the thing on which many of their careers had been built. You invented the Cosmopolitan, you fuck! It was more that the drink required two artificial ingredients — flavored vodka and cranberry juice cocktail — that they, as artisans, had foresworn.
This book features five very different cocktails named Cosmopolitan, but the following recipe, shown in the book as an example of a Daisy, includes triple sec and is very similar to today's Cosmopolitan, only with lemon in place of lime, gin in place of vodka and raspberry syrup in place of cranberry. This pale pink cocktail is not a bad drink see Cosmopolitan for recipe and photograph.
Another candidate as an ancestor of the modern-day Cosmopolitan is the Harpoon Cocktail , a drink promoted by Ocean Spray during the s. A bottle label from Ocean Spray's archives lists the Harpoon as a "new cocktail" with a recipe specifying 2 ounces Ocean Spray cranberry and 1 ounce vodka or light rum served "over the rocks or tall with soda". Ocean Spray's recipe also suggests adding an optional splash of lime or lemon.
In , the company updated its recipe to also list gin as a possible base spirit. Bartender and author Cheryl Charming AKA Miss Charming , who has researched the origins of the Cosmopolitan, discounts both of the above in her The Cocktail Companion , asserting " that two bartenders, at two different times fourteen years apart , in two different cities miles apart created a cocktail with almost identical ingredients and named it the same name-Cosmopolitan.
These bartenders are Neal Murray and Cheryl Cook. Two New York City bartenders claim to be the first to have upgraded the Cosmopolitan recipe by using quality ingredients, however, only one of them has been credited. Their names are Melissa Huffsmith and Toby Cecchini. She based her drink on the newly available Absolut Citron vodka which launched in and added a splash of triple sec, a dash of Rose's lime and, in her own words, "just enough cranberry to make it oh so pretty in pink".
A popular phrase at the time from the film Pretty in Pink. To quote Miss Charming's book, Cook served many celebrities and had many stories.
She vividly remembers serving Madonna and Sandra Bernhard-many times. When the Cosmopolitan went what today we would call "viral" from Sex and the City, Cook just assumed that the show's costume designers, Patricia Field and Rebecca Weinburg were responsible for introducing the cocktail to the writers because Field and Weinburg were regulars of hers.
Encouraged by a couple of college mates, in , while studying political science at the University of Minnesota, Neal Murray then aged 24 took his first bartending position at the Cork 'n Cleaver Steakhouse in Golden Valley. After learning the key cocktail recipes of the day, he soon noticed a change in cocktail trends from gin to vodka — particularly as base spirits in the Gimlet and Kamikaze shooter. Hence, in Autumn he tried combined a Cape Cod and Kamikaze, adding Leroux triple sec from the Kamikaze to the Cape Codder's vodka Gordons , cranberry Ocean Spray and lime Rose's to make a shaken drink which he strained in a cocktail glass.
Murray had initially been turned down from the job at the Steakhouse "because he was black" and this is key to the naming of his Cape Cod and Kamikaze riff. When he made the pink drink, a regular asked the name and Murray replied, [to quote Miss Charming's The Cocktail Companion ] " I just thought it needed a little color," making a joke about how he was hired.
The regular said, "How cosmopolitan! Here he taught the bartender there, Michael Brennan now a noted artist , to make his Cosmopolitan cocktail and started recommending it to customers and the drink became a hit.
Here switched the vodka in his Cosmo for Mt. Gay Rum to create a "Barbados Cosmopolitan". It's a little hard to imagine that, only twenty years ago, the white-wine spritzer, gin and tonic, and occasional sweet drink were the calls of choice.
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