A small note for those who want to play bartender at home: I've prepared a ready-made ingredient list with everything required. Now let me tell you how it all began.
The Sazerac is the official cocktail of New Orleans, with roots reaching back to 1838. Creole apothecary Antoine Amédée Peychaud, an émigré from Haiti, had invented a bitter medicinal, Peychaud's Bitters, which he served to his customers in an egg cup called "coquetier" — a word many historians believe to be the true etymological root of the English word "cocktail."
Peychaud's creation evolved into a cognac-based drink at the Sazerac Coffee House, then switched to rye whiskey after the Phylloxera plague devastated European vineyards in the 1870s. The absinthe rinse gave it its unmistakable aromatic seal. Today it is the oldest continuously documented cocktail in American history, and a sacred ritual of Louisiana.
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