October, 2014 - Magda Portal - Pisco Sour

Magda Portal - 1900-1989

One of the most influential early Latin American feminists, Peruvian-born Magda began her career as a poet and activist while taking night classes at a Lima university.  By 23 she had won a national poetry competition - which she refused to accept from the dictatorial Peruvian president.  By 27, her political activities had led to exile; at 31, she cofounded an anti-imperialistic, pan-American political party, Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA), which remains the oldest in Peru (and the party of the last president).  Her insistence on a more equitable role for women, however, as well as dismay over the party's leadership's progressively less-progressive leanings, caused a break with A PRA in 1948.  Throughout her life she remained a literary leader, fighting for the rights of women, through poetry, books, magazines, and newspapers.  At 80, she was elected president of the Asociacion Nacional de Escritores y Artistas.
The Drink:

Pisco Sour

2 oz Pisco  (Peruvian)
1/2 oz simple syrup
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
1 Tbsp egg white
dash angostura bitters

Angostura Bitters (see note, below)
1 egg white

Drinkability: 2
Drunkability: 4.5
Taxic Diversity: 3.5
Accessibility: 2
Priority for Conservation: 2 - 3.5

Comments: Made with REAL Peruvian Pisco.  Though, egg white was reduced to probably less than 1/2 an egg white per person.

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