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Lift a Glass to Birthday Girl Bloody Mary

Weekend-morning pick-me-up turns 75 today

By M. Morris,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 1, 2008 3:58 PM CST

(Newser) – Seventy-five years ago today, a bartender at the St. Regis Hotel in New York added Tabasco sauce to a hair-curling tomato-juice-based cocktail known as the Red Snapper, and a classic was born. Fernand Petiot gets credit for inventing the Bloody Mary, but did he? Epicurious...   Read full story »

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