Mojito
Origin
Cuban folk cocktail with no single inventor; antecedents trace to 16th-century Caribbean tafia drinks (the 'Draque'). Modernized at La Bodeguita del Medio in Havana from 1942, popularized worldwide by association with Hemingway.
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