If you enjoy an occasional cocktail, you likely have heard, at some time or another, the origin stories for some of your favorite mixed drinks. But you might not know that for most of these drinks, someone else somewhere else is telling a different origin story. In fact, there is even dispute over the origin of the word cocktail.
History is all around us, and it is amazing to me how it can become lost in plain sight. For example, language is chocked full of forgotten history.