Cleopatra's pearl cocktail recipe revealed

[snopes]

Cleopatra, fabled final Queen of Egypt, packed a pretty mean pearl cocktail, according to legend.

In the current Classical World journal, Jones details the history of the story. In it, Cleopatra won a wager with her befuddled Roman consort, Marc Antony, by consuming her pearl cocktail to create the costliest catering bill ever.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...cocktail_N.htm

[candy from strangers]

I bet she drank it from an iced out pimp chalice.

[smallpotatoes]

I 1st read this as pearl cockatiel. All I could think was poor little birdie. And, I didn't know the pearl variety had been around way back then.