BLOODY MARY
1. Beth Hart - I'll Take Care Of You
2. Etta James - It's A Man's Man's World
3. Bettye LaVette - Strange Fruit
4. Melody Gardot - Don't Misunderstand
5. Björk - Gloomy Sunday
6. Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue
7. Diana Krall - Temptation
8. Billie Holiday - Yesterdays (1952 Version)
9. Melody Gardot - Bad News
10. Billie Holiday - Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
11. Nina Simone - Strange fruit
12. Billie Holiday - Lady Sings The Blues
13. Nina Simone - Ne Me Quitte Pas
14. Katherine Jenkins - Parla piu piano (from the Godfather)
15. Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child
16. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
17. Bria Skonberg - So Is the Day
18. Billie Holiday - Sometimes I'm Happy
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BLOODY MARY
Ingredients
45 ml Vodka
90 ml Tomato Juice
15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
2 dashes Worcestershire Sauce
Tabasco, Celery Salt, Pepper (Up to taste)
Garnish: Celery, Lemon Wedge (Optional)
Method
Stir gently all the ingredients in a mixing glass with ice, pour into rocks glass.
Note:
If requested served with ice, pour into highball glass.
IBA official cocktail (International bartender association)
History
The French bartender Fernand Petiot claimed to have invented the Bloody Mary in 1921, well before any of the later claims, according to his granddaughter.[1][failed verification] He was working at the New York Bar in Paris at the time, which later became Harry's New York Bar, a frequent Paris hangout for Ernest Hemingway and other American migrants.[2] The original cocktail is said to have been created on the spur of the moment, according to the bar's own traditions, consisting only of vodka and tomato juice.[3] This cocktail was originally referred to as a "Bucket of Blood".[4] Harry's Bar also claims to have created numerous other classic cocktails, including the White Lady and the Side Car.[5]
New York's 21 Club has two claims associated with it. One is that it was invented in the 1930s by bartender Henry Zbikiewicz, who was charged with mixing Bloody Marys. Another attributes its invention to the comedian George Jessel, who frequented the 21 Club.[6] In 1939, Lucius Beebe printed in his gossip column This New York one of the earliest U.S. references to this drink, along with the original recipe: "George Jessel's newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town's paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka."[7][verification needed]
In a 1939 publication by El Floridita called "Floridita Cocktails" a recipe called "Mary Rose" lists the main ingredients of a modern Bloody Mary. This booklet may be one of the earliest publications depicting the name Mary, while using the same ingredients in today's Bloody Mary.[8]
Fernand Petiot claimed to have invented the modern Bloody Mary in 1934 as a refinement to George Jessel's drink, at the King Cole Room in New York's St. Regis Hotel, according to the hotel's own history.[9] Petiot told The New Yorker in July 1964:
I initiated the Bloody Mary of today. Jessel said he created it, but it was really nothing but vodka and tomato juice when I took it over. I cover the bottom of the shaker with four large dashes of salt, two dashes of black pepper, two dashes of cayenne pepper, and a layer of Worcestershire sauce; I then add a dash of lemon juice and some cracked ice, put in two ounces of vodka and two ounces of thick tomato juice, shake, strain, and pour. We serve a hundred to a hundred and fifty Bloody Marys a day here in the King Cole Room and in the other restaurants and the banquet rooms."[10]
The cocktail was claimed as a new cocktail under the name "Red Hammer" in Life magazine in 1942, consisting of tomato juice, vodka, and lemon juice.[11] Less than a month later, a Life advertisement for French's Worcestershire Sauce suggested that it be added to a virgin "Tomato Juice Cocktail" along with tomato juice, salt, and pepper.[12] The addition of salt to the alcoholic beverage was suggested that same year in a story in Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan.[13]
Timing
After dinner