grand roosevelt hotel new orleans Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/grand-roosevelt-hotel-new-orleans Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:08:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 THE SAZERAC NEW ORLEANS http://toursmaps.com/sazerac-new-orleans.html http://toursmaps.com/sazerac-new-orleans.html#respond Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:08:40 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=238923 In 2008, the Sazerac was declared the official cocktail of New Orleans. This spicy, liquorice-flavored mixture of sugar, rye whiskey, Peychaud’s bitters, Herbsaint, and a lemon twist has its home at the Sazerac Bar in the Roosevelt Hotel. But its origins lie in a pharmacy just a few blocks away in the French Quarter, near the intersection of Royal and St. Louis streets. There, in 1832, Antoine Amedee Peychaud prepared and sold his family’s bitters recipe. In the nineteenth century, many pharmacists mixed their own bitters, which were used to treat all manner of ailments. To make his version more

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