18:06 | Cerro de Pasco, Feb. 04 (ANDINA).
A provincial Peruvian city will put up a monument to Pisco Sour and its creator Victor Morris, an authority in Cerro de Pasco said on Monday.
Cerro de Pasco is located in the central Andes of Peru at an altitude of 4,000 meters above sea level.
Rodolfo Rojas Villanueva, regional director for foreign trade and tourism, said that according to historic facts the bartender Victor Vaughn Morris prepared the Pisco Sour cocktail for the very first time on July 28th, 1904.
It marked the inauguration of the railway between the capital Lima and Cerro de Pasco.
At that time, Morris did not have champagne to celebrate the occasion, so he used a grape-based liquor called pisco, lemon, egg white and cinnamon to create a cocktail that decades later would become the national drink of Peru.
"Today more than ever, the pasqueños (people from Pasco) are proud to be part of the origin story of this drink enjoyed in Peru and around the world, and this is because Morris prepared the cocktail for the first time here," said Rojas.
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Published: 2/4/2013