Maraschino history

The role of the old Hapsburg Empire in the creation of a cocktail cabinet stalwart.

There’s an old joke about Lebanese politics:  if you think you understand it, then it obviously hasn’t been properly explained to you. I feel that way when reading about the Austro-Hungarian Empire. My word it’s a confusing business. It was ruled by the Austrian Habsburg family but there were so many different people and rather than living in defined ar…