The James Bond cocktails: Bloody Mary
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The James Bond cocktails: Bloody Mary

Discover how to prepare an excellent Bloody Mary guided by the 007 movie

«They went to a table in the shade, on the border of  the terrace with sea view. Bond looked at its watch. "It's noon" said the girl. "You want to drink something strong or light?" "I will read" was the answer. "I'll have a doubble Bloody Mary with a lot of Worchester sauce"».
  This is Thunderball and the girl defiantly ordering the drink is the beautiful Domino Vitali, the first time she manages to impress Bond: when the waiter brings the Bloody Mary, she'll stir it with a finger. She will be a young Kim Basinger starring the same person in the movie Mai dire mai, with Sean Connery in the shoes of Bond, always asking for a Bloody Mary with a lot of Worchester sauce. Curiosity The Bloody Mary cocktail owes its name to Maria Tudor (said "The Bloody"), the daughter of Enrico VIII and its first wife Caterina d'Aaragona; she usurped the throne in 1554 and created a climate of terror for Protestants. On attribute the authorship of this cocktail to Pete Petoit barman of the Harry’s Bar New York in Paris, which created the Bloody Mary in 1920 and revealed the recipe when he went to the King Cole Bar in the Regis of Manhattan.

You need

4,5 cl vodka 9 cl tomato juice 1,5 cl lemon juice Drops of Tabasco Drops of Worchester sauce Salt as required Pepper Celery stalk or Star fruit  

How to prepare the Bloody Mary

Fill an Essenza long drink glass with ice cubes and put together the ingredients, stirring carefully. otherwise you can shake it and than garnish with the celery stalk or the star fruit. 

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