Legend says Hemingway helped name the cocktail.
Harry’s Barcelebrated the centennialof its tomato juice cocktail in 2021 and the drink is still going strong.
It also happens to be the birthplace of the world’s most popular hangover cure, the bloody mary.
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According to the Associated Press,the drink was originally created by a bartender named Fernand Petiot.
And by 1921, the recipe was published in a book called “Harry’s ABC of Cocktails.”
But the story behind the cocktail is a bit more muddled.
According to one local legend, Petiot invented the drink when Hemingway was dating a woman named Mary.
(Others outside the bar say it wasnamed for Mary Queen of Tudor.)
We’ll drink to that.