Explain cocktail and the parts of cocktail?

A cocktail is an mixed drink: It contains at least two or more ingredients. One of these integredients must be a spirit.

Originally a Cocktail was a mix of different elements: water, spirits, sugar and other things. Today everything with alcohol is a cocktail - or a drink.

Drinks akin to cocktails first appeared sometime during the 16th century, but

cocktails, as we know and use the term, was first introduced by American

bartenders in the 1920ies.

The reason the cocktail made it big in the happy '20ies, was the prohibition, when

producing and imbibing of alcohol was made illegal. As good as all spirits available

was of a rather dubious quality and tasted accordingly. Thus, the bartenders,

accommodating as always, started to mix the spirits with various fruit juices and

other flavorings to make it more palatable. Later, the cocktail lost its popularity

most places, the United States being the main exception.

The last few years, however, the cocktail has reclaimed lost ground everywhere,

especially in southern Europe and other places that are full of tourists. Cocktails

usually consist of three different 'classes' of ingredients.

• The first, the base, is most often some sort of spirit, like vodka, whiskey, or

tequila. Occasionally, such as in many punches, some sort of wine is being

used as a base.

• The second, the modifier, is added to bring out the aroma of the base

and to modify its taste. The main flavoring is often such as Vermouth,

various fruit juices, wine, or even eggs or cream.

• The third, the flavoring, is added to enhance the taste of the base, and

often also adds the color to the cocktail. Common special flavorings include

Grenadine, Blue Curacao, and others.

garnish-Most cocktails are also decorated in some way, usually with fruit slices, orange peel, cocktail sticks, mint twigs, etc.

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