Olivier Poels 5:40 p.m., April 27, 2022
Two theories clash around the history of the Bloody Mary and its name: The cocktail would have been invented in the 1920s at Harry's Bar, in Paris, by a mixologist named Fernand Petiot for the American comedian Roy Barton, amateur of tomato juice… Its name was attributed to it later, in 1931, in memory of Mary Tudor, Mary the Bloody.
Presented (wrongly) as an anti-hangover remedy, it became popular at this time.
Another amusing theory: Ernest Hemingway, at the bar of the Ritz, would have ordered a cocktail that does not smell of alcohol in order to prevent his wife whom he nicknamed “bloody Mary” from falling on him…
Bloody Mary recipe
Ingredients :
5 cl of vodka
10 cl of tomato juice
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce (a condiment invented in the early 19th century in England)
1 dash of tabasco
1 dash of lemon juice
1 pinch of celery salt
1 pinch of pepper
Fill the glass with ice cubes and pour the lemon juice, tabasco, Worcestershire sauce
Add pepper and celery salt
Pour in the vodka and tomato juice
Mix with a spoon and garnish with a stalk of celery