<p>Born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents, David Adjaye’s influences range from contemporary art, music, and science, to African artforms and the civic life of cities. Since Adjaye Associates started in 2000, his ingenious use of materials and sculptural ability established him as an architect with an artist’s sensibility.</p>

<p>Taking as our obvious inspiration David’s Museum of African American Culture and History for the Smithsonian, David Moo and I came up with a drink based on a Switchel, the vinegar-based pre-Colonial-era thirst quencher that emigrated with the diaspora of slavery from the Caribbean to the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, taking on various ingredients along the way. Goosed with a roasted banana-infused aged rum, this was a pointedly thematic study in one glass.</p>