Argentina and Chile brought a centuries-old staple to this city, then watched it get rebranded, upcharged, and marketed like a brand-new discovery. So who gets to claim it now, the people who carried the recipe across continents, or the city that flipped it into a trend?
Every December we lie to ourselves. Not all coquito is good. Most of it is a sweet, boozy trap in a reused bottle your cousin shouldn’t legally be selling.
