If you want to taste history tonight, I've already prepared the complete shopping list with all the ingredients. Now, the legend.
The Grasshopper was born at Tujague's, the second-oldest bar in New Orleans, created around 1919 by owner Philip Guichet. Guichet invented it for a bartenders' cocktail competition in New York, where his grasshopper-green creation finished second. He brought it back to Louisiana, and the drink became the house specialty at Tujague's for the next century.
Its creamy texture and vivid mint-green color made it the archetypal ladies' dessert cocktail of the mid-20th century, a southern staple in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2009, the novelist Richard Bradford even dedicated a book to it, "The Grasshopper King," cementing its role as a sweet, nostalgic icon of classic American cocktail culture.
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