Tag: margarita day

n celebrating #NationalMargaritaDay on February 22nd, I give you a fully loaded post filled with history, factoids, info, and recipes. The Margarita doesn’t begin showing up on bar counters until much later in cocktail history - well into the 1930s and '40s. The actual origin of the margarita has been obscured (too many margaritas, perhaps?), but it is not surprising it began showing up when it did. Thanks to the budding smuggling trade from Mexico into America during Prohibition and the scarcity of European brandies and spirits during World War II, tequila was becoming more common in bars across the country.