:Cosmopolitan (cocktail)

The International Bartenders Association recipe is based on vodka citron, a lemon-flavored vodka.

{{cite web

|url=http://iba-world.com/cocktails/cosmopolitan/

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|access-date=2017-08-13

}} The use of citrus-flavored vodka as the basis for this cocktail appears to have been widely popularized in the mid-1990s by cocktail expert Dale DeGroff{{cite web|url=http://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/473/cosmopolitan-2-degroffs-formula |title=Cosmopolitan #2 (DeGroff's formula) Cocktail Recipe – How To Make Cocktail Recipes |publisher=diffordsguide |access-date=2014-03-15}} and is used in the IBA-approved recipe. Many bartenders, however, continue to use a standard unflavored vodka — this alternative would undoubtedly be historically consistent with any of the supposed predecessors of this drink that were popular in Ohio, Provincetown, or Minneapolis during the 1970s, or in San Francisco during the 1980s.{{cite book|last=Calabrese|first=Salvatore|title=Classic Cocktails|year=1997|publisher=Prion Books|location=London|isbn=1-85375-240-1|page=103}}{{cite magazine|last=Kammerling|first=Alex|title=All You Need to Know About The Cosmopolitan|magazine=Class, the magazine of bar culture|date=June 2003}}{{cite book|title=150 Classic Cocktails|year=2003|publisher=Hamlyn|location=London|isbn=0-600-60992-8|page=38}}{{cite book|title=Cocktails: The Complete Book of Cocktail Recipes for the Bartender|year=2007|publisher=Octopus Publishing Group|location=London|isbn=978-0-600-61671-9}} A lemon twist is sometimes used to garnish.

The cosmopolitan is usually served in a large cocktail glass, also called a martini glass. For this reason, the drink is sometimes mistakenly categorized as a type of martini.

The origin of the cosmopolitan is disputed,{{cite web|title=The Definitive History of the Cosmopolitan: Quibbling over who invented it is only half the tale. Here's how the pink drink went from a Cleveland gay bar to Madonna's call drink to SATC, according to the people responsible for it|date=Sep 11, 2019 |first=PRIYA |last=KRISHNA|url=https://punchdrink.com/articles/definitive-history-cosmopolitan-cosmo-vodka-cranberry-cocktail/|work=Punch}} with some histories tracing it from the gay community in 1970s Provincetown, moving west to Cleveland and Minneapolis, and landing in San Francisco. From there, it moved back east, with the contemporary recipe being mixed in 1989 in New York City. Another claim to the cosmo's origin is South Beach, Florida, in the mid-1980s.

While the cocktail is widely perceived to be a more modern creation, there is a recipe for a "Cosmopolitan Daisy" which appears in Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars 1903–1933, published in 1934:

{{blockquote|Jigger of Gordon's Gin ({{cvt|1+1/2|USoz|cl|disp=sqbr}} Beefeater)

2 dash Cointreau ({{cvt|1/2|USoz|cl|disp=sqbr}} Cointreau)

Juice of 1 Lemon ({{cvt|1|USoz|cl|disp=sqbr}} Lemon Juice)

1 tsp [.5 cl] Raspberry Syrup (homemade)

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.{{cite book|title=Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars: 1903-1933|first=Charles Christopher |last=Mueller|date=1934|location=New York|publisher=Trinity Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yjTvtAEACAAJ}} }}

Made with ingredients that would have been readily available during the period, this identically named cocktail aims for the same effect. If this drink is, in fact, the source of the modern cosmopolitan, then it would be an adaptation of a Daisy rather than a Kamikaze.{{cite web|title=Cosmopolitan Cocktail|work=THE COCKTAIL SPIRIT |first= ROBERT |last=HESS|url=http://www.smallscreennetwork.com/video/41/cosmopolitan/|publisher=Small Screen Network|access-date=2013-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223220129/http://smallscreennetwork.com/video/41/cosmopolitan|archive-date=2017-12-23|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/595/cosmopolitan-3-1934-recipe |title=Cosmopolitan #3 (1934 recipe) Cocktail Recipe – How To Make Cocktail Recipes |publisher=diffordsguide |access-date=2014-03-15}}

One version of the creation of this popular drink credits the accomplishment to the gay community in Provincetown, Massachusetts.{{Cite book |last1=Harrington |first1=Paul |last2=Moorhead |first2=Laura |year=1998 |title=Cocktail: The Drinks for the 21st Century |location=New York |publisher=Viking (Penguin Putnam Inc.) |page=76 }}{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713194957/http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/cosmopolitan_cocktail/|archive-date=July 13, 2017|url=http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/cosmopolitan_cocktail|website=The Big Apple|first= Barry |last=Popik|date=January 10, 2005|title=Cosmopolitan (cocktail)}}

==== 1970s: John Caine ====

John Caine is the owner of several popular bars in San Francisco and a cosmopolitan expert. He partially credits the upsurge in cocktails during the 1970s to the Cosmo being served at fern bars. Caine is credited with bringing the Cosmo west from Cleveland.{{cite web |url=http://eastbaymonthly.com/kilduff-07-06.html |title=Belly Up to the Bar: John Caine brought the cosmo to Frisco |access-date=2008-05-20 |last=Kilduff |first=Paul |work=The Kilduff Archive |publisher=The Monthly: The East Bay's Premier Magazine of Culture and Commerce |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101005015818/http://eastbaymonthly.com/kilduff-07-06.html |archive-date=2010-10-05 |url-status=dead }}

==== 1975: Neal Murray ====

Bartender Neal Murray says he created the cosmopolitan in 1975 at the Cork & Cleaver steak house in Minneapolis.{{cite web |url=http://www.citypages.com/bestof2006/sexdrugsrocknroll/bestof2828.asp |title=Best Locally Created Cocktail |work=Best of the Twin Cities 2006 |publisher=CityPages.com |access-date=2018-08-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109064707/http://citypages.com/bestof2006/sexdrugsrocknroll/bestof2828.asp |archive-date=2007-01-09 }} According to Murray, he added a splash of cranberry juice to a Kamikaze and the first taster declared, "How cosmopolitan."

Murray's Cosmopolitan used 1.5 oz Gordon's vodka, .75 oz Rose's Lime, .75 oz Leroux triple sec, and .5 oz cranberry juice.{{Cite book |last=Charming |first=Cheryl |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Bartender_s_Ultimate_Guide_to_Cockta/nI_uEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22Neal%20Murray's%20Cosmopolitan%22 |title=The Bartender's Ultimate Guide to Cocktails: A Guide to Cocktail History, Culture, Trivia and Favorite Drinks|year=2022 |publisher=Mango Media |isbn=978-1-64250-793-5 |page=124 |language=en |author-link=Cheryl Charming |quote=1.5 ounces Gordon's vodka }} a 1972 product !

==== {{circa}} 1985: Cheryl Cook ====

There are several other claims made as to the origin of the cosmopolitan. Cocktail historian Gary Regan credits bartender Cheryl Cook of the Strand Restaurant in South Beach, Florida, with the original creation.

{{Cite book |last=Grimes |first=William |date=November 2001 |title=Straight Up Or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail |url=https://archive.org/details/straightuporonro00will |url-access=registration |publisher=North Point Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/straightuporonro00will/page/119 119] |isbn=9780865476011 }}. In a letter to Regan, Cook related the story of how she created the drink in 1985 or 1986:

{{blockquote|What overwhelmed me was the number of people who ordered Martinis just to be seen with a Martini glass in their hand. It was on this realization that gave me the idea to create a drink that everyone could palate and was visually stunning in that classic glass. This is what the Cosmo was based on.{{cite web

|url=http://www.ardentspirits.com/ardentspirits/Newsletter/vol7Issue06.html#cosmo

|title=The Birth of the Cosmopolitan: A Tale of Two Bartenders

|access-date=2006-12-31

|last1=Regan

|first1=Gary

|last2=Regan

|first2=Mardee Haidin

|date=October 2006

|work=Ardent Spirits e-letter. Vol. 7, Issue 6

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707072947/http://www.ardentspirits.com/ardentspirits/Newsletter/vol7Issue06.html#cosmo

|archive-date=2007-07-07

|url-status=dead

}} }}

Cook's original recipes called for "Absolut Citron, a splash of Triple sec, a drop of Rose's lime and just enough cranberry to make it oh so pretty in pink." Although Absolut Citron was not introduced anywhere officially until 1988, it was test-marketed in Miami.

Cheryl Charming's The Cocktail Companion credits a bartender named Patrick "Paddy" Mitten with bringing the drink to New York City from San Francisco in October 1987.{{Cite book |last=Charming |first=Cheryl |author-link=Cheryl Charming|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJYREAAAQBAJ |title=The Cocktail Companion: A Guide to Cocktail History, Culture, Trivia and Favorite Drinks |date=2018 |publisher=Mango Media Inc. |isbn=978-1-63353-924-2 |page=113 |language=en}}

==== 1989: Toby Cecchini & Melissa Huffsmith-Roth ====

Bartender Gaz Regan says that the internationally recognized version of the cocktail was created by Toby Cecchini and Melissa Huffsmith-Roth in 1989 at The Odeon, a restaurant in Manhattan, based on a poorly described version of Cheryl Cook's creation. Cecchini and Huffsmith-Roth's Cosmopolitan includes 2 oz Absolut Citron vodka, 1 oz Cointreau, 1 oz lime juice, and .5 oz cranberry juice. Other sources give Cecchini sole credit for the contemporary drink's invention.{{cite news|work= Grub Street|date=Sep 19, 2016|title= COSMOS! How the Inventor of the Cosmopolitan Learned to Embrace His Most Famous Creation|author-link= Robert Simonson|first=Robert|last=Simonson|url=https://www.grubstreet.com/2016/09/meet-the-bartender-who-invented-the-cosmopolitan.html}}

==== 1993: New York City ====

According to Sally Ann Berk and Bob Sennett, the Cosmopolitan appears in literature as early as 1993 and derives from New York City.{{cite book|title=The New York Bartender's Guide| first= Sally Ann |last=Berk |date= April 10, 2006|publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal|edition= 2nd |isbn= 978-1579124700 }}{{cite book|title=Complete World Bartender Guide: The Standard Reference to More than 2,400 Drinks|page=117 |first=Bob |last=Sennett|date=1993|publisher=Bantam Books|isbn=978-0553299007}}{{Cite magazine |magazine=New York |title=Cocktail: Fifty Seven Fifty Seven at the Four Seasons Hotel |date=October 31, 1994 |page=84 |volume=27 |number=43 }}{{cite magazine |magazine=Gourmet |volume=55 |pages=7–12 |title=Unknown Title |date=July 1995 |location=New York, New York }}

The cosmopolitan gained popularity in the 1990s thanks in part to Madonna.{{cite web|url=http://www.periodismo.uma.es/trabajos/perinter/2009/reportajecocteles/cosmopolitan.html|title=Cosmopolitan|date=2009|access-date=October 11, 2023|language=es|publisher=University of Málaga}} Dale DeGroff explains that after the singer was spotted drinking one in 1996, overnight he received calls across the globe, "as far away as Germany and Australia" for the recipe.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bQQNAAAAQBAJ&dq=cocktail&pg=PA116|title=World's Best Cocktails|date=2012|access-date=October 11, 2023|first=Tom|last=Sandham|publisher=Fair Winds Press|page=116|isbn=9781592335275 }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4zbqBQAAQBAJ&dq=cocktail&pg=PA93|title=Field Guide to Cocktails|date=2015|access-date=October 11, 2023|first=Rob|last=Chirico|publisher=Quirk Books|page=93|isbn=9781594748417 }}

It was later frequently mentioned on the television program Sex and the City, in which Sarah Jessica Parker's character, Carrie Bradshaw, commonly ordered the drink when out with her girlfriends. The trend was spoofed in the 2008 film adaptation when Miranda Hobbes asks Carrie why she ceased drinking them, to which Carrie replies, "Because everyone else started."{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}

• One variation calls for stirring in a mixing glass, instead of shaking.{{cite web|url=http://www.spiritdrinks.com/cocktails/Cosmopolitan.asp |title=Cosmopolitan Drink Recipe|publisher= Spirit Drinks |access-date=2010-07-01}}
• An alternative ingredient in substitution for Cointreau is a variation of the French Martini.
• The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Kathy Wakile created a Red Velvet Cosmo, based on one of her favorite desserts, red velvet cake.{{cite web|url=http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20120228155309676|publisher=Paramus Post|title=Red Velvet Cosmo Introduced By Kathy Wakile of 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey'|author=Fabrikant, Mel|date=28 February 2012|access-date=5 July 2012|archive-date=31 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331150311/http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20120228155309676|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey/season-4/bio/kathy-wakile|website=Bravo TV|series=Real Housewives of New Jersey|title=Bio: Kathy Wakile: Cast|access-date=5 November 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105125439/http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey/season-4/bio/kathy-wakile|archive-date=5 November 2013}}
• For a virgin cosmopolitan, replace the vodka and triple sec with orange juice and pink lemonade.{{cite web|url=http://goshindig.com/cosmopolitan-cocktail/ |title=Virgin Cosmopolitan Drink|date=21 December 2016|publisher= Go Shindig |first=Brian|last=Hamilton|access-date=24 December 2016}}
• For a "constipolitan," use prune juice in place of cranberry juice.{{Cite web|url=https://www.barnonedrinks.com/drinks/c/constipolitan-11116.html|title=Constipolitan Drink Recipe – Cocktail|website=www.barnonedrinks.com}}
• A CosNOpolitan, from Kimbal Musk's The Kitchen, has cranberry juice, lime, orange bitters, and soda.{{cite news|title=Sober Times for Alcohol Marketers|last=Schultz|first=E.J.|work=Advertising Age|volume=90|issue=2|page=26|date=2019-01-19}}

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