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The history of the famous Bloody Mary cocktail





If the name of the original recipe and you can bet the place of occurrence rather significantly. For all but one person of Colin Field located in a Paris hotel, "Ritz" bar "Hemingway". Field, who is considered the best bartender of the world, refuses to believe that the "Bloody Mary" appeared in the Paris «Harry's New York Bar».

This bar (not in any way associated with the bar «Harry's» in Venice) was inaugurated Harry Makelhonom on Thanksgiving Day in 1911 after a US jockey closed the bar in New York and moved to Paris. Restaurant in New York's style has become so attractive to Americans hungry for alcohol because of the "dry law" that they even learned to speak Parisian taxi drivers his address - "Sank Ryu yes nude!". This phrase has long been written on the window of the bar.

In the area of ​​1920 refugees from post-revolutionary Russia flooded Paris, introducing the local population with vodka and caviar. Bartender of the «Harry's» Ferdinand Petio (Peter) began experimenting with new beverage, which seemed to him tasteless. At the same time Petio learned about American canned tomato juice, which during the "dry law" in the menu was called "cocktail of tomato juice».

During the year Petio doing a variety of drinks with vodka. One day, he mixed it with tomato juice and some spices, and a new cocktail. American entertainer Roy Burton called it "Bucket of Blood" in honor of the famous nightclub, situated on the west side of Chicago.

Drink Americans fell to his liking, and in 1933, Vincent Astor perevёz Petio in New York, making it the control bar «King Cole» at the «St. Régis », known for its mural painting" Old King Cole "by Parrish. The drink got accustomed to the new location (especially as a means to relieve a hangover), but at a more modest name of "Red Snapper." So he called in said bar «King Cole» to this day.

Here are today's official recipe bar «King Cole», which sells about 850 servings of "red snapper" in the last month: 1 ounce of vodka "Stolichnaya", 2 ounces of tomato juice, 1 drop of lemon juice, 2 pinches of salt 2 pinches of black pepper, 2 pinches cayenne pepper and 3 drops of Worcestershire sauce. Served with a slice of lemon and celery stalks.

It is not known exactly when the other bars of the city began to be called cocktail "Bloody Mary" in honor of the Queen of England and Ireland, Mary I Tudor, the board noted that killings of Protestants. In 1939, during the campaign of vodka «Smirnoff», which in 1934 began to produce in America Russian emigrant Rudolf Kunnechansky, actor George Jessel said he named the drink after his girlfriend Mary Geraghty. The appearance of the printed cocktail recipes called "Bloody Mary" is, at least by 1946. Chicago Bar «Butch McGuire's» declares that here began using a sprig of celery to mix the drink.

Ernest Hemingway, probably, became acquainted with the "red snapper" in 1920 in «Harry's New York Bar». In one of his letters, he said that in 1941 brought the recipe for "Bloody Mary" in Hong Kong. According to him, it played no less a role in the collapse of the British colony, than the whole Japanese army (Hemingway said that he personally released "Ritz" in August 1944, but in fact he was late for a few hours).

He had a very detailed cocktail recipe: "Take a good-sized jar and put in it as much as possible ice. This is to prevent excessively rapid melting and the ingress of water into the drink. Mix a pint of good Russian vodka with the same volume of chilled tomato juice. Add a full tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce, a better production of «Lea & Perrins», but you can «AI» or other quality steak sauce. Stir. Add a half ounce of fresh lemon juice. Stir. Now add a little celery salt, cayenne and black pepper. Continue to stir and try to taste. If the drink has too strong - add the tomato juice, too weak - vodka ».

To celebrate the eightieth birthday cocktail, I went to the «King Cole Bar», ordered there the "Red Snapper" and drank it with excellent fried prawns with aioli and arugula salad, chickpeas, cheese and avocado. I spent some toast Petio, his wife's family, who emigrated in the 1920s from Russia to Paris, Vincent Astor (face King Cole mural copied from it), the abolition of the "dry law" December 5, 1933, 80 years ago.

And further. When you are in the «King Cole Bar», quietly ask the bartender Mike Reagan's little secret, known to each habitue, that is actually depicted in the painting.

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