Daiquirí
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Daiquirí is a small village, 14 miles east of Santiago de Cuba. It became a focal point of the United States invasion of Cuba in the Spanish–American War.
American troops landing at Daiquirí in 1898
Daiquiri
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The daiquiri is a cocktail whose main ingredients are rum, citrus juice, and sugar or other sweetener.
Daiquirí
…highly effective. Other troops landed at Siboney, but Daiquirí continued as a storage area until U.S. forces took Santiago. The alcoholic cocktail, the daiquiri, was supposedly named for the area. There is an iron mine near Daiquirí, which is a word of Taíno origin. The cocktail was supposedly invented about…
Classic daiquiri served in a cocktail glass
A strawberry daiquiri.