The Adelaide Swizzle Cocktail from the Swizzle Stick Bar, NOLA

Try the famous Swizzle Cocktail from Cafe Adelaide in New Orleans.
By Michelle M. Winner

Right on the introduction page of Ti Adelaide Martin and Lally Brennan’s book  In the Land of Cocktails the cousins admonish you to try something new. And the ” something” refers, of course, to cocktails.

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Their little cocktail book, a compendium of recipes is a fun read but also contains the wonderful history and lore of their famous Brennan restaurateur family and hometown, New Orleans … and boy is New Orleans a cocktail town.

Their restaurant Café Adelaide (the other is Commander’s Palace) is located inside Lowes New Orleans Hotel on Poydras. And inside Café Adelaide is the famous Swizzle Stick Bar named for Aunt Adelaide who has been referred to by the cousins as their “very own Auntie Mame”. So full of life and living it to the full, Lally and Ti say she wore a gold swizzle stick necklace and “every once in a while she would lean over her drink and swizzle her drink with her necklace.”  Get the picture?

To honor Aunt Adelaide we want to celebrate with Ti and Lally, the Cocktail Chicks, at their delicious Café Adelaide perhaps you’ll join us with one of The Adelaide Swizzles from the Swizzle Stick Bar? Their cocktail book is available via  HarperCollins.