Everything There Is to Know about Bloody Mary

Perhaps the father was a flamboyant actor, or a Parisian immigrant with roots in New York and Harry's Bar, Paris; we don't know exactly. The mother, however, was apparently called Mary. In the case of Bloody Mary, success has many fathers – or those who claim to be. But people who dismiss this successful cocktail merely on the basis of its qualities as a pick-me-up do the drink an injustice and do themselves no good either, since hungover tongues and palates can only scratch the surface of the taste experience.