Cocktail of the week with Fabrizio Musorella

Mai Tai
Mai Tai-Roa Ae, in Tahitian means Out of this world, the best. Those are the very first words pronounced after sipping this cocktail prepared by Victor ‘Trader Vic’ Bergeron, from his friends at his Emeryville bar, Oakland in 1944. Trader Vic used a combination of aged rum in his original recipe, which produced the perfect balance of taste and finesse in this extraordinary cocktail. He also the founder of the fusion/Polynesian Trader Vic’s restaurants and bars.
Ingredients
2cl dark rum
2cl golden rum
1cl Cointreau or Triple Sec
1cl Orgeat (almond syrup)
2cl fresh lime juice
3 dashes grenadine
Preparation
Pour all the ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake sharply. Strain into the glass over shaved ice. Garnish if you wish with a wedge of lime. Enjoyed best with a straw.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.