{"id":1500,"date":"2019-03-27T04:58:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2019-03-27T04:58:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:58:47","slug":"why-you-should-sip-a-sazerac-tonight-in-honor-of-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1500","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Sip A Sazerac Tonight In Honor Of Feminism&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, Hillary Clinton made history as the first woman ever to be nominated for the presidency by a major party. A huge milestone,\u00a0without question, but she couldn\u2019t have gotten there without the trailblazing women who came before her. Trailblazing women like those who stormed The Sazerac Bar 67 years ago today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in the not-so-good-old days, bars were often an all-boys club, a place for politicians and businessmen to rub shoulders,\u00a0though a\u00a0few of the more progressive saloons\u00a0would let the ladies in via a separate side entrance. The Sazerac Bar in New Orleans\u2019 storied Roosevelt Hotel was no different.<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly the home of America\u2019s first\u00a0and\u00a0second\u00a0cocktail ever (the first was\u00a0its namesake and\u00a0the second was\u00a0the Ramos Gin Fizz), the hotel\u2019s\u00a0bar\u00a0was also an old-school, high-end drinking establishment where women could only be served during Mardi Gras.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>On September 26, 1949,\u00a0that all changed. Looking to shake things up, the bar\u2019s manager Seymour Weiss\u2014known for his close relationship with Louisiana\u2019s\u00a0governor Huey P. Long Jr.\u2014moved the bar to a space facing Bayonne Street. He also opened it up to women 365 days a year. Ever the showman, he packed The Sazerac Bar with beautiful women on opening day and gave the event\u00a0a dramatic name: \u201cThe Storming of The Sazerac.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he wanted to move those movers and shakers into the hotel,&#8221; Russ Bergeron, a bartender at The Sazerac Bar,\u00a0told <em>The Times-Picayune<\/em>. &#8220;Or he might have bought it for the shock value of allowing women in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d like to think that Weiss was simply a feminist moving with the times,\u00a0but either way, we\u2019ll raise a glass in honor of progress any day.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not lucky enough to be a native Louisianan, don\u2019t worry,\u00a0you can still sip this\u00a0historical cocktail\u00a0at\u00a0home tonight during the debate\u00a0in honor of all the women who couldn\u2019t until 1949.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ingredients\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cube sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\u00bd ounces\u00a0Sazerac Rye whiskey or Buffalo Trace bourbon<\/li>\n<li>\u00bc ounce Herbsaint<\/li>\n<li>3 dashes Peychaud\u2019s bitters<\/li>\n<li>Lemon peel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Instructions<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ol type=\"1\">\n<li>Pack an old-fashioned glass with ice.<\/li>\n<li>In a second old-fashioned glass, place the sugar cube and add the Peychaud&#8217;s bitters to it, then crush the sugar cube.<\/li>\n<li>Add the Sazerac Rye whiskey or Buffalo Trace bourbon to the second glass containing the Peychaud\u2019s bitters and sugar.<\/li>\n<li>Empty the ice from the first glass and coat the glass with the Herbsaint. Discard the remaining Herbsaint.<\/li>\n<li>Empty the whiskey\/bitters\/sugar mixture from the second glass into the first glass and garnish with a lemon peel.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Header Photo via Flickr&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, Hillary Clinton made history as the first woman ever to be nominated for the presidency by a major party. A huge milestone,\u00a0without question, but she couldn\u2019t have gotten there without the trailblazing women who came before her. Trailblazing women like those who stormed The Sazerac Bar 67 years ago today.\u00a0 Back in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}