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The Origins of the Bloody Mary (2014)
From Prohibition, Paris, and something called a "Bucket of Blood," to Hemingway, and your hangover
Ernest Hemingway, who likely knocked back a few Red Snappers on his visits to Harry's New York Bar in the 1920s, wrote in a 1947 letter that he had introduced the Bloody Mary to Hong Kong in 1941, an act he said "did more than any other single factor except the Japanese Army to precipitate the Fall of that Crown Colony." One way or the other a Bloody Mary possesses plenty of authority, so to celebrate the octogenarian cocktail's birthday, I went to the King Cole Bar last night, ordered a Red Snapper and drank it with excellent grilled prawns with a smoked aïoli and a chopped salad with arugula, chickpeas, cheese and avocado. I drank a toast to Pete Petiot, to my wife's Russian family, who emigrated to Paris in the 1920s, to Vincent Astor (whose face is that of King Cole in the mural), and to the end of Prohibition, December 5, 1933, eight long decades ago.
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