The Bloody Mary Book

• Author: Ellen Brown
• Title: The Bloody Mary Book
• Published: 2017
• Trivia: National Bloody Mary day is January 1
• ….I’m a little late celebrating!
• #20BooksOfSummer

 

Introduction:

1. Well, here is a book ‘HOT OFF THE PRESSES’
2. If you ‘google’  around the internet you will probably
3. …discover  the same
4. anecdotes I have included in this blog post.
5. Let’s see if Ellen Brown had something new to say!

 

Remedy for hangover:

1. Salt and spices replace lost electrolytes
2. while the vitamin C, vitamin B6
3. …and lycopene ease the havoc that
4. overindulgence has wrought on the body.
5. You are better off with a ‘Virgin Bloody Mary’
6. …on the day after!

 

Preparation:

1. I like a Bloody Mary quite simple, lots of ice, a garnish of with celery…
2. I’m not crazy on the wacky garnishes you see – bacon, prawns and the like.
3. I do like a vodka Bloody Mary
4. …which is definitely the more standard version.

 

 

L/R:      Hemingway and his wife Mary, Nancy Hawks, Spencer Tracy, George Jessel, unknown.

• There are many stories about the origin and naming of the Bloody Mary
• …as there are variations on the recipe.
  

 

1. Pete Petiot:  bartender at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris, 1921
2. Story:  Petiot named the drink ‘Bloody Mary’ after a woman who sat at the bar for
3. …long hours pining for a boyfriend who seldom kept appointments with her.

 

1. Colin Field: head bartender of Ritz Paris’s Hemingway Bar, 1950’s
2. Story: The doctors had forbidden Hemingway to drink.
3. Mary his wife  had taken this seriously and placed Ernest under close watch.
4. Stealth and cunning were needed…and the bartender devised the ingenious mixture
5. …a drink packed with alcohol that could not be detected on the writer’s breath!
6. Hemingway was so pleased that he got the better of his ‘bloody wife’ that he
7. …named the drink after her, Bloody Mary!

 

1. History: Queen Mary
2. Story: Some attribute the name to notorious Queen Mary Tudor
3. who executed hundreds of Protestants in the name of
4. Catholicism during her short five-year reign from 1553 to 1558.

 

Entertaining trends:

1. Look at this appetizing display in a café bar  for DYI  
2. …Virgin Bloody Mary’s    (no alcohol)

 Here is a Bloody Mary at the Breakwater in Stonington Connecticut….

…I’ll have to work on my garnishes!  Thanks Kathy for the snapshot!

Bloody Mary Cocktail

• 50 ml vodka
• 100 ml fresh tomato juice
• Dash balsamic vinegar
• 6 drops of Tabasco
  
• 4 dashes Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 shot fresh lemon juice (15 ml)
• 2 pinch ground pepper
• 2 pinch  salt
• Shake all the ingredients with ice and strain into an
• ice-filled long drink glass garnish celery and lemon wedge!

First impression?  

1. VERY REFRESHING!
2. ….and I LOVED  the sound of a real cocktail shaker
3. filled with ice…and ingredients!
4. It was just exciting!
5. ps….I just finished my cocktail
6. …and would love a second one…but I will restrain myself!
7. Next week…..a new cocktail…a new blogpost!

Shot glass: