Today's cocktail of the week is an unusual one. Accounts of its 'discovery' in the early 1900's seem to be split between either the Frenchman Pascal Olivier, Count de Negroni and the Italian Count Cammillo Negroni who supposedly asked for an Americano cocktail with gin rather than soda. I find it more likely that an Italian asked for a drink kicked up a notch than a Frenchman crafting a cocktail with Italian Campari, but stranger things have happened.

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