Mint Juleps
Mint Juleps

Why We Drink Mint Juleps at the Kentucky Derby

by Tori Avey on Apr 15, 2015

It is the very dream of drinks, the vision of sweet quaffings. The Bourbon and the mint are lovers. In the same land they live, on the same food they are fostered. The mint dips its infant leaf into the same stream that makes the bourbon what it is. The corn grows in the level lands through which small streams meander. By the brook-side the mint grows. As the little wavelets pass, they glide up to kiss the feet of the growing mint, the mint bends to salute them. Gracious and kind it is, living only for the sake of others. The crushing of it only makes its sweetness more apparent. Like a woman's heart, it gives its sweetest aroma when bruised. Among the first to greet the spring, it comes. Beside the gurgling brooks that make music in the pastures it lives and thrives.

— - J. Soule Smith, The Mint Julep: The Very Dream of Drinks, 1949
Mint Juleps

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Mint Juleps

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Dishes and Beverages of the old South

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Mint Julep

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