Cosmopolitan Trivia | 30 facts about the classy cocktail

Cosmopolitan is a sweet, and legendary cocktail. It is somehow related to New York City, and it was really preferred by Sex & The City characters.

So, let’s find out more about the Cosmopolitan cocktail!

1. A cosmopolitan is also informally referred to as cosmo.
2. It is a cocktail made with vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice, and freshly squeezed or sweetened lime juice.
3. The International Bartenders Association recipe is based on vodka citron, lemon-flavored vodka.
4. The cosmopolitan is a relative of cranberry coolers like the Cape Codder.
5. Though often presented far differently, the cosmopolitan also bears a likeness in composition to the kamikaze cocktail.
6. The origin of the cosmopolitan is disputed.
7. While the cocktail is widely perceived to be a more modern creation, there is a recipe for a Cosmopolitan Daisy which appears in Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars 1903–1933.
8. This was published in 1934.
9. Made with ingredients that would have been readily available during the period, this identically named cocktail aims for the same effect.
10. If this drink is in fact the source of the modern cosmopolitan, then it would be an adaption of a Daisy rather than a Kamikaze.
11. Cheryl Charming’s Cosmopolitan cocktail history research is detailed in her 16th book and website.
12. Names recognized include: Neal Murray, Melissa Huffsmith-Roth, Toby Cecchini, Cheryl Cook, and Dale Degroff.
13. One version of the creation of this popular drink credits the accomplishment to the gay community in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
14. Bartender Neal Murray says he created the cosmopolitan in 1975 at the Cork & Cleaver steak house in Minneapolis.
15. According to Murray, he added a splash of cranberry juice to a Kamikaze and the first taster declared, “How cosmopolitan.”
16. This event supposedly led to the naming of the new beverage.
17. John Caine is the owner of several popular bars in San Francisco and a cosmopolitan expert.
18. He partially credits the upsurge in cocktails during the 1970s to the Cosmo being served at fern bars.
19. Caine is credited with bringing the Cosmo west from Cleveland.
20. There are a number of other claims made as to the origin of the cosmopolitan. Cocktail historian Gary Regan credits bartender Cheryl Cook of the Strand Restaurant in South Beach, Florida with the original creation.
21. Some people think that Cook is a mythical character, but in a letter to Regan, Cook related the story of how she created the drink in 1985 or 1986.
22. Notable bartender Gaz Regan says that the internationally recognized version of the cocktail was created by Toby Cecchini & Melissa Huffsmith-Roth in 1989 At The Odeon restaurant in Manhattan based on a poorly described version of Cheryl Cook’s creation
23. According to Sally Ann Berk and Bob Sennett, the cosmopolitan appears in literature as early as 1993 and derives from New York City.
24. The cosmopolitan cocktail gained popularity quickly. It traveled from Provincetown, through New York, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, and on to San Francisco.
25. The cosmopolitan gained popularity in the 1990s.
26. It was further popularized among young women by its frequent mention on the television program Sex and the City, where Sarah Jessica Parker’s character, Carrie Bradshaw, commonly ordered the drink when out with her girlfriends.
27. The film adaptation made a reference to its popularity when Miranda asks why they stopped drinking them, Carrie replies “because everyone else started”.
28. The cosmopolitan is usually served in a large cocktail glass, also called a martini glass. For this reason, the drink is sometimes mistakenly categorized as a type of martini.
29. On May 7th is National Sosmopolitan Day in the U.S.A.
30. National Cosmopolitan Day was coined by freelance author Jace Shoe-Maker Galloway.