The cosmopolitan has a problem: everyone knows it, and nobody agrees on the recipe. I compared the most popular Quebec versions and found three completely different ratios. One uses twice as much cranberry as another. Another swaps citron vodka for plain vodka, which totally changes the drink. The result: depending on where you get your recipe, you end up with three cocktails that have almost nothing in common.<\/p>\n
When I make these for people, the comment that keeps coming up about bar cosmos is that they’re too sweet. Almost like juice. My version fixes that: more lime, more Cointreau, and only 15 ml of cranberry, just enough for the pink colour and a hint of fruit in the background. The result is a bright, tart cocktail that tastes like citrus rather than syrup. If you like it rounder, bump the cranberry up to 30 ml and you’re back to the international standard.<\/p>\n
A lot of people think the cosmopolitan was born with Sex and the City. The show made it famous, but it didn’t invent it. It was created in 1987, 1988, in the wake of Absolut Citron’s launch, somewhere between Miami and Manhattan. New York bartender Toby Cecchini rebuilt it with citron vodka, Cointreau, fresh lime juice and cranberry juice. And that’s the version that travelled the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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