Add dashes of Worcestershire Sauce, Tabasco, salt and pepper into a highball glass. Fill the glass with ice cubes and pour in the remaining ingredients. Stir gently with a bar spoon. Garnish with a lemon wedge and celery stalk, and serve.

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A Bloody Mary is a popular cocktail containing vodka, tomato juice, and usually other spices or flavorings such as Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, beef consomme or bouillon, horseradish, celery, olive, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, lemon juice, and celery salt. The origin of the Bloody Mary is disputed. Fernand Petiot is said to have invented the drink in 1921 while working at Harry's Bar in Paris, France, According to a bartender from the St. Regis Hotel in NYC, Fernand Petiot invented the Red Snapper which is a classy name for Bloody Mary, at the St. Regis in 1934. There is no horseradish in the recipe. Some claim that Fernand Petiot corroborates that George Jessel first created the drink and name, and that he (Petiot) merely added the spices to the plain vodka and tomato juice drink, based on a quote from The New Yorker magazine in July 1964: I initiated the Bloody Mary of today, he told us. Jessel said he created it, but it was really nothing but vodka and tomato juice when I took it over. I cover the bot...

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