Daiquiri: OmniScriptum Daiquiri: Cocktail, Rum, Lime Juice, Havana, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David A. Embury, Grenadine, Mining, Jennings Cox, The Miami Herald, Caipirinha

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Daiquiri is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum, lime juice, and sugar or other sweetener. There are several versions, but those that gained international fame are the ones made in the El Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba. The Daiquirí is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic "The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks". In the book, he also suggests some variations, such as substitute part or all of syrup with grenadine. The name Daiquirí is also the name of a beach near Santiago, Cuba, and an iron mine in that area, and it is a word of Taíno origin. The cocktail was supposedly invented about 1900 in a bar named Venus in Santiago, about 23 miles east of the mine, by a group of American mining engineers. Among the engineers present were Jennings Cox, General Manager of the Spanish American Iron Co., J. Francis Linthicum, C. Manning Combs, George W. Pfeiffer, De Berneire Whitaker, C. Merritt Holmes and Proctor O. Persing. Although stories persist that Cox invented the drink when he ran out of gin while entertaining American guests, the drink evolved naturally due to the prevalence of lime and sugar.