If you want to taste history tonight, I've already prepared the complete shopping list with all the ingredients. Now, the legend.
The Lemon Drop Martini was born in San Francisco in the mid-1970s, at the legendary Henry Africa's bar, the first "fern bar" in America, where bartender Norman Jay Hobday created it. Fern bars were a specific 1970s invention: decorated with tropical plants, they welcomed a new clientele of single professional women, who until then had been excluded from traditional American bars.
Hobday created the Lemon Drop, with its sugared rim and sharp citrus profile, specifically for that emerging female clientele. The drink was a symbol of female emancipation and sexual liberation of the 1970s and 1980s in the U.S. It then received a viral boost in the 2000s thanks to "Sex and the City" and the "-tini" wave, becoming one of the most popular vodka-based cocktails of the modern era.
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