Mardi Gras is an annual spring season festival in France, held on the day before Easter's Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday" - the last opportunity to eat rich food before the fast of Lent begins. It is related to celebrations everywhere, call carnivals, from the Latin word carne and vale "meat" and "farewell," meaning a farewell to meat before the abstinence of Lent.
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New Orleans, Louisiana, is famous for its Mardi Gras celebration.


New Orleans

1.5 oz. bourbon
0.5 oz. Pernod
4 dashes Angostura bitters
Dash orange bitters and anisette
0.5 tsp. sugar syrup Fill a mixing glass with cracked ice
Add ingredients and shake
Pour into a chilled rocks glass
Garnish with lemon twist


New Orleans Fizz

1 1/2 ounces gin
1/2 ounce lemon juice
3 dashes orange flower water
1 teaspoon simple syrup
2 ounces cream
One egg white
(for the Golden Fizz use the yolk
of an egg; for the Royal Fizz,
use an entire egg)
Soda water
Place ingredients into blender with
one scoop of cracked ice; flash
blend for 15 to 30 seconds. Pour
mixture into large wine goblet,
top with soda water.
Garnish with a small flower blossom.


New Orleans Fizz 2

1 oz Dark Rum
1 oz Triple Sec
1/2 sweet sour mix
1/2 orange juice
shake with ice
Serve on the rocks