The legacy founder Elmer Kemp established throughout the decades and locations of Elmer’s Uptown is still felt, even after his death in 2018. Walk into the bar and grill, 3925 N. Lincoln Blvd., for one of the four nights a week it offers live music and there is likely to be a table with three […]
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Marvelous margaritas
There’s more than one margarita creation story, but the top three involve a socialite, a dancer, a singer and, of course, bartenders. One of the earliest stories is when Ziegfeld Follies dancer Marjorie King visited Rancho La Gloria Hotel in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, in 1938. She asked bartender Carlos “Danny” Herrera to create a drink […]
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One tequila, two tequila
Margarita at Casa Perico Credit: Mark Hancock Stories of how the tequila-based cocktail was created are remarkably numerous. The venerable Smithsonian magazine attempted to sift through the urban myths, but the best it could do was narrow it down to a couple of possibilities and the certainty that the drink was invented in the Western […]
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Skinnier cocktails
Much of the credit for the trend goes to Bethenny Frankel, the natural foods chef and reality television star who started Skinnygirl Cocktails. The company featured a signature margarita with 100 calories for a 4-ounce serving. The trend was catchy, but very few people drink 4-ounce cocktails. Margaritas tend to come in large tumblers, king-size […]