Cuban Cocktails

Completely forgot that one, sorry!

Vademecum’s article covers pretty much the same sources I used from my still unpublished 2018 article, so there.

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Bacardi Air would probably be Aero Bacardi. Aereo here is likely a shortened version of “correo aereo” or Airmail.

Apparently the Cuban national airmail service was launched in October 1930, which could help date the recipe.

http://www.philat.com/biblio/E/ECHE0212b.pdf

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That’s a wonderful stamp (by which I refer to the purple rubber stamp, not the murky paper one)!

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Little abusive, though, if you look at the bottom left.

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That is an unfortunate town name.

Edit: I wanted to get François’ Punch article on here:

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I would put the Nacional in the kind-of famous category. (apologies if this was addressed in subsequent posts.)

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