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Mojito (pronounced mo-HEE-toe),
one of Cuba’s oldest cocktails, comes from the African word mojo, which means to place a little spell.
Bacardi traces the drink’s roots to 1586, when Francis Drake and his pirates tried to sack Havana for its gold. While the invasion was unsuccessful, Drake’s associate,
Richard Drake, was said to have invented a mojito like cocktail known as El Draque made with aguardiente (a crude forerunner of rum), sugar, lime and
mint. Early on, it was consumed for medicinal purposes.
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Around the mid 1800s, the recipe was altered and gained in popularity as the original Bacardi Company was established. In 1940, Cuban playwright and poet Federico
Villoch proclaimed: "When aquardiente was replaced with rum, the Draque was to be called a Mojito."
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