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lending the term from the Aztecs. The Spanish conquistadors transliterated it as agucate, adding
the Mexican world mole “sauce” to the end. It is said the Spaniards liked their avocados three
ways, with salt, with sugar or both.
martini (cocktail) - There are several popular theories about the origin of the name of martini
cocktail. According to the first, the name comes from Martini & Rossi, an Italian firm that has
been exporting vermouths to the U.S from the 19th century. Supposedly, the name of the firm was
in existence then. Second theory claims that martini is simply a dryer version of an older cocktail
called the martinez which was created in Martinez, California by professor Jerry Thomas, when a
gold miner visited his San Francisco bar and asked for a unique drink. In another version of the
story, it was local bartender Julio Richelieu in Martinez in 1870 who was asked to make a new
drink by a gold miner
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