The cocktail has the distinction of being an original American drink.Its origins are murky, but the most common accounts name one Antoine Amedee
Peychaud, a young Creole from a distinguished French family, as the originator of
the drink.Peychaud, along with wealthy plantation owners, fled his home in the French
controlled portion of the island of Hispaniola during the slave uprisings of
1793.Peychaud, trained as an apothecary, settled in New Orleans and set up shop in the
French Quarter. Al.