For the non-margarita crowd, below is a recipe for José Andres’ Black & Blue cocktail, a refreshing, fruit-filled tipple kicked up with a Mezcal float .
Black & Blue
Ingredients:
2 blackberries
2 raspberries
6 blueberries
2 lime wedges
1 tablespoon sugar
3 mint leaves
1 ½ oz. tequila
Sprite
½ oz. Mezcal ( or tequila again if you dont have or dont want mezcal!)
3 blueberries and small mint leaves (for garnish)
Method: Combine the berries, lime and sugar in a pint glass and muddle. Add the mint leaves and tequila and shake. Strain into a highball glass filled halfway with ice. Fill glass almost to the top with Sprite. Top with the Mezcal. Garnish with the remaining blueberries and mint leaves.
Cinco de Mayo (which, by the way, commemorates Mexico’s victory at the Battle of Puebla over Napolean’s French invaders in1862 and is not Mexican Independence Day) and the margarita seem sonomous -- and it is a fact that the margarita has become one of the most popular drink concoctions in the world.
Since the Tex-Mex boom of the 1970s and the release of the Jimmy Buffet song Margaritaville in 1977, the margarita has become the official libation of summer, sand and all that that entails. Unfortunately its image as a cheap drink made with bad mixers, muddled (and I use that term in the worst way) with questionable fake fruit products and perhaps worst of all, served frozen like sorbet or even a snowcone, has turned many purists away, ultimately robbing them of the simple, pure, sweet and sour taste that characterizes a good margarita. I for one think we need to start a margartia revloution - back to basics - now pass the tequila!
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