Not to agave nectar substitute cocktail confused with Pizza Margherita. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
A margarita is a cocktail consisting of tequila, triple sec, and lime juice often served with salt on the rim of the glass. The history of the margarita is one of folklore due to its numerous origin stories. The Cafe Royal Cocktail Book, published in the UK in 1937, contains a recipe for a Picador using the same concentrations of tequila, triple sec, and lime juice as a margarita. According to Jose Cuervo, the cocktail was invented in 1938 by a bartender in honor of Mexican showgirl Rita de la Rosa. Hussong’s Cantina also claims to have been the site of the margarita’s creation in Ensenada, Baja California, in 1941. There are also claims that the margarita was first mixed in Juárez, Chihuahua at Tommy’s Place Bar on July 4, 1942, by Francisco “Pancho” Morales.
