Tequila Sunrise

During the 1970s the tequila sunrise was a trend-setting new drink. It was so popular that a Hollywood film, several restaurants, a hit song, a quilt pattern, and at least three yellow and red flowers—a rose, a snapdragon, and a coreopsis—came to be named after it. The tequila sunrise was one of the emblematic drinks in Cyra McFadden’s 1976 novel The Serial, a parody of the California lifestyle. No one knows for sure who invented the tequila sunrise, but it is thought to have originated in California. The tequila sunrise was considered the perfect “morning-after” drink, a cure for hangovers brought on by tequila shots or margaritas drunk the night before.