The most invigorating cocktail there is, served here as a
Bloody Massimo thanks to a new version courtesy of chef
Massimo Riccioli, patron of
Trattoria La Rosetta in Rome.
NAPLES,
Italy, Dec. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Tomato
juice, vodka, spices, and a legendary 'splatter' name: the Bloody
Mary is served in this reinterpretation by the "Red Gold Tomatoes
from Europe" project, promoted by
ANICAV (the Italian Association of Canned Vegetables
Industries). The international project, co-funded by the European
Union, which promotes and enhances the export and consumption of
Italian organic preserved tomatoes to Sweden, presents the "Bloody Massimo",
inspired by one of the most iconic and "bloody" drinks, on the
official list of the IBA's (International Bartenders Association)
international alcoholic cocktails.
The history of the Blood Mary. The origins of the
cocktail date back to the early 1900s, when according to some,
Fernand Petiot, bartender of the
legendary Harry's Bar in Paris,
was inspired by Ernest Hemingway,
one of many Americans who frequented the bar. The first recipe was
simple, but ingenious: half vodka, half tomato juice and spices. It
seems that Petiot perfected it in New
York, at the St. Regis Hotel bar, making it even spicier. In
1939 the cocktail became a success, thanks to Lucius Beebe, who praised the new drink in his
gossip column in the New York Herald Tribune.
Petiot reiterated that he had developed the recipe as early as
1934: 6 cl of vodka, 6cl of tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce,
horseradish sauce, later replaced by Tabasco, salt, black pepper,
cayenne pepper, a squeeze of lemon and crushed ice. And what about
the origin of its name? One theory is it came from a famous
admirer: the Hollywood star
Mary Pickford, who already had a red
drink named after her which was then "betrayed" with the Bloody
Mary. Another is that it was a tribute to Mary I, Queen of
England, nicknamed Bloody Mary
because of the iron fist with which she tried to restore
Catholicism in Protestant England, by executing traitors to the
kingdom.
Now, to the bar to make this version, courtesy of the Red Gold
Tomatoes from Europe project: the
"Bloody Massimo".
Link: https://redgoldfromeurope.eu/recipes/bloody-massimo/
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