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You Have Just Got To Try A Bahama Mama

Well, I tried them all... hell of a hangover, but had a great time!

This is the LPR article of the weekend (might be upgraded to article of the month).

Bahama Mama is one of the well known and favorite drinks in the Bahamas. If youre in the island of the Bahamas you can never do away with having a try on this drink. Its a combination of an alcohol fruity taste drink thats totally out of this world as well as refreshing and tangy. Who knows you may even want to have more when you get a taste of it. But you dont really need to be in the Bahamas to take a sip on this drink, all you need is its various recipes, and youre on your way to getting that feel of the Bahamian spirit. Here are some Bahama Mama recipes:

Bahama Mama (Original Recipe)

1/4 oz 151 Proof rum

1/4 oz Coffee liqueur

1/2 oz Dark rum

1/2 oz Coconut liqueur

4 oz Pineapple juice

Juice of 1/2 lemons

How to do it: Combine and stir all ingredients with ice. Strain into a chilled tumbler filled with ice or pour over cracked ice in a Collins glass. Dress up with cherry or strawberry and serve.

Bahama Mama 2

2 oz Orange juice

2 oz Pineapple juice

1/2 oz Heering cherry liqueur

1/2 oz Grenadine syrup

1/2 oz Lemon Juice

1 oz Coconut rum

1 1/2 oz Rum

How to do it: Shake all ingredients combine with cracked ice. Serve in a 12 oz glass and decorate with cherry and 1/2 slice orange in a tooth pick.

Bahama Mama 3

1/2 Bananas

1 splash Grenadine syrup

2 oz overproof rum

4oz coconut milk

4oz Pineapple juice

How to do it: Put all ingredients in a blender with half a cup of crushed ice. Blend well and pour into a tall glass, serve.

Bahama Mama 4

6 oz Pineapple juice

1 oz Nassau Royale rum

1 oz Malibu coconut rum

1 oz Dark rum

1/2 oz Grenadine syrup

How to do it: In a cocktail shaker, shake all ingredients together with ice. Pour with ice into a hurricane glass and serve with a slice of orange.

Bahama Mama NC

3 oz pineapple juice

3/4 oz Banana liqueur

3/4 oz Light rum

1 oz Malibu coconut rum

1 oz Orange juice

1 dash Grenadine syrup

How to do it: In a cocktail shaker, pour all ingredients together and shake well. Pour in a pina-colada glass with cubed or crushed ice. Serve.

Bahama Mama Sunrise

1/2 oz grenadine syrup

2 oz Pineapple juice

1 oz dark rum

1 oz spiced rum

4 oz orange juice

How to do it: Combine and mix all ingredients and serve over ice in a tall glass.

Easy Bahama Mama

1/2 tsp Sugar syrup

1 dash grenadine syrup

1 dash Amaretto almond liqueur

1 Maraschino cherry

2 oz Pineapple juice

2 oz Dark rum

How to do it: Just pour everything over crushed ice in a margarita glass and decorate with a cherry.

All these Bahama Mama recipes will surely afford you that feeling of the Bahamas so get those ingredients, follow the procedures, and shake yourself a Bahama Mama.

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More About the Bahamas

Destination Guides > Central America & Caribbean > Caribbean > Bahamas

Graced with beautiful beaches of pink sand, evocative windswept panoramas and countless opportunities for diving, snorkelling and fishing, the islands of the Bahamas are well established as one of the world's top draws for both intrepid explorers and casual vacationers. An island chain beginning a mere 55 miles east of Miami, Florida, the Bahamas offer an array of tourist hotels, all-inclusive resorts, and even rustic lodges, making staying there a relatively simple endeavour. Indeed, more than three million travellers each year choose the islands as their prime destination for outdoor sports, sun worship, casino gambling and, on some of the slightly more remote spots, eco-tourism.

In total, the Bahamas include around seven hundred islands, no more than thirty of which are inhabited, as well as smaller cays (pronounced "keys") and rocks - an impressive arc stretching from just beyond the Atlantic coast of Florida to the outlying waters of Cuba, where Great Inagua lies only sixty miles offshore. Although deeper oceanic troughs surround some of the islands, most are encircled by shallow, crystalline water that reflects a light turquoise hue during the day and glows with purple luminescence at night. This combination of shallow and deep water makes diving and snorkelling both challenging and intriguing, with numerous reefs waiting to be explored just beyond the shores of the gorgeous, uncrowded beaches.

The native music of the Bahamas is a combination of African and Caribbean rhythms, often played on drums and various skin or pipe instruments. Rake'n'scrape music, prominent on the Out Islands, features rough guitars and percussion instruments made from ratchets and saws; calypso and reggae are also popular.

Traditional Bahamian meals may include seafood like grouper, conch and snapper (usually broiled or baked in a tomato sauce), along with tropical fruits like guava and papaya. As former members of a British colony, Bahamians have adopted many traditional English dishes , or adapted them to suit local tastes. These include macaroni and cheese, peas and rice, boiled potatoes and other vegetable dishes. A Bahamian breakfast may consist of anything from fried eggs, bacon, toast, tomato and coffee to more Caribbean-influenced dishes like johnny cakes with coconut. Lunch tends toward seafood stews and soups or large conch salads.

With tourism expanding to the Bahamas, many different types of imported culinary styles have flourished here as well. On New Providence and Grand Bahama, you can find restaurants serving Continental, Mediterranean and Greek cuisine, and even Mexican and pan-Asian dishes, in elegant surroundings with excellent service and fine wines. Many of these restaurants are located at major hotels and resorts and require reservations, while other eateries in Nassau, Paradise Island and Grand Bahama operate independently and cater to a more eclectic crowd.
Every town or settlement in the Bahamas has its share of take-away restaurants, featuring traditional offerings like fried chicken, french fries and deep-fried seafood . Most Out Island restaurants serve fairly simple and uniform fare, usually fish, conch or fried chicken, with fresh Bahamian lobster a rare treat. Island desserts are often delightful, especially the coconut concoctions, rice pudding, gingerbread and fruit cocktail.

Bahamians are not much for drinking wine or liquor, though the national beer , Kalik, is a fine elixir enjoyed throughout the islands. Fruit juice and soft drinks are popular, and major brands like Coke and Pepsi are predictably ubiquitous. Fast-foo chains have also invaded the Bahamas, and the major islands all feature at least one pizza or hamburger joint from each chain.

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Wine History and Origins a Great Article

Somedays, it's great to be choosen to update the LPR company Blog, especially when a really great article gets submitted that's not only well written, but informative and about MY favorite subject... WINE.

Now I just love a glass or three of wine with my dinner and maybe a few afterwards. The thing is, I never once thought about the history and origins of wine.

This is my article of the day republished from LPR:

The Origins of Wine and Winemaking

Wine has a long and venerable history, with references to its use cropping up in ancient texts from thousands of years ago - not least, of course, in the Bible. We know for a fact that it was firmly established in the Middle Eastern culture of around two thousand years ago, and for it to be so commonplace at that time it must have been around for quite some time before that.

Viticulture was certainly a large part of the economy of the Roman Empire, and the spread of Roman civilisation included the spread of wine growing and wine drinking as the colonising soldiers moved across the Old World. In ancient Rome, a common form of wine was known as mulsum, heavily sweetened with honey, and produced on large agrarian estates largely by the slave population. What remained in the wine press after crushing the grapes - seeds and skins mainly - was often fed to livestock, or alternatively brewed into a very low quality 'wine' and given to the slaves who'd grown the grapes.

We also know that winemaking was familiar to the ancient Greeks, from whom the Romans learned so much, and there's physical evidence of this in the form of a stone wine press found in a Minoan villa on the island of Crete, dating back to around 1600 BC. The winemaking facilities discovered there appeared to be quite advanced and sophisticated, suggesting that the Minoans had been practising the art of winemaking for a considerable period before that date.

Prior to this, the trail is a little less clear as we go further back into history. The ancient Greeks had strong trading links with nearby eastern cultures such as Egypt, and although we can't be sure, it seems that it was from the ancient Egyptians that the Greeks learned to make wine.

Physical evidence of wine production in ancient Egypt includes remains of wine jars and stoppers dating back to the earliest years of the civilisation, and wine was used both as a food and a medicine. Wine in pharonic times was not only made from grapes, but also from figs, pomegranates, and other fruits, a practice which continues across the world to this day in the rural production of 'country wines' such as damson and elderberry.

The first great civilisation of historic times was in Mesopotamia, close to Egypt, in what is modern day Iraq and surrounding areas. Although records from this era are sketchy, considering that writing was not invented until the latter part of the civilisation, there is evidence that wine was produced here too. A clay jar bearing traces of what could have been wine has been discovered in what is now northern Iran, and carbon dating shows that it was made around 5000-5400 BC. This is the oldest known evidence of wine consumption, but as this period of pre-history stretches back to 8500 BC, it is likely that winemaking had been known and practised for maybe thousands of years before that.

So, next time you relax with a glass in your hand, ponder for a moment that what you are drinking could be the results of over ten thousand years of cumulative learning and experimentation with the magical process of fermenting grapes!

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