The creation of The Bloody Mary is a matter of some dispute,, but is generally credited to Ferdinand ‘Pete’ Petiot, a bartender at Harry’s American Bar in Paris, where he began his bartending career as a sixteen-year old in 1916.
Petiot purportedly first mixed vodka with tomato juice in 1921. After Prohibition ended in 1933, he was invited in 1933 to move to the St. Regis Hotel’s King Cole Bar in New York by the owner.
Petiot brought his recipe with him and in United States he added Worcestershire sauce and pepper to the recipe.
Petiot named the drink either after a girlfriend called Mary or after Mary Tudor, the mid-sixteenth-century Catholic queen of England.
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