January 25th is National Irish Coffee Day! Irish Coffee is pronounced to have been invented in 1943 by Joe Sheridan, a cook during a Foynes airfield terminal’s grill and coffee shop. After a moody was forced to lapse to land due to severe weather, Sheridan was asked to offer a returning passengers something warm, and combined a Irish Coffee. The plcae is now a maritime museum.
In Nov of 1952, transport author Stanton Delaplane brought a recipe to San Francisco after perplexing a splash in a Shannon Airport in Ireland. Delaplane helped a owners of a Buena Vista cafe, Jack Koeppler, ideal a recipe to offer to cafeteria guests. You can still suffer an Irish Coffee during a Buena Vista cafe today.
Celebrate National Irish Coffee Day with this discerning and easy take on a renouned cocktail from Stephanie Nuccitelli of a blog 52 Kitchen Adventures. Get a recipe here!