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August 25th is: Whiskey Sour Day 🥃🍋‍🟩🍋...

what you’re witnessing here is the end result of implementing what I think might be the world’s simplest whiskey sour recipe — compliments of Langston Hughes (Feb 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967). That’s right the GREAT, late LH — aka the Leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

I stumbled upon this super simple but oh so tasty ‘recipe’ after falling into a research rabbit hole…

EXCERPT FROM ONE OF LANGSTON HUGHE’S LETTERS TO Carl Van Vechten WHERE THIS COCKTAIL GOT ONTO MY RADAR: …

…”Stagg made "Hard Daddy" cocktails (named after one of Langston's blues poems) of whiskey and….  ..

[….CONTINUED FOR MY PATREON PEEPS ON THAT PLATFORM with the RECIPE and a MINI demo to boot! …]