Suck It Up
Around this time back in 1901, Englishman Hubert C. Booth patented the vacuum cleaner. But it took another few years (and ditching the horse-drawn cart) for the dust-busting device to take off as a consumer product, thanks to an Ohio janitor and a business baron named Hoover. Hear the story, then toast the spirit of invention with a cocktail that doesn’t suck:
“Suck It Up,” as concocted by bartender Melissa Venditti of the Main Street Grill in North Canton, Ohio — Hoover’s former hometown:
In a mixing glass, add:
- 1 1/2 oz. Canadian Whiskey
- 1/4 oz. amaretto
- generous splash of fresh-squeezed lemonade
- splash of soda water
Chill, pour into martini glass, serve it up, hoover it down.
