STEVE INSKEEP, host: Morning Edition would not be complete if we failed to mention the birthday of the Bloody Mary. Yesterday marked the 75th anniversary of the drink.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Fernand Petiot is believed to have served the first Bloody Mary in Paris in the 1920s.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: Then in New York in 1933, he reputedly perfected the drink that includes tomato juice.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Vodka.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: Worcestershire sauce.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: And a little pepper. A celebration in New York yesterday included the inventor's granddaughter, Carol Bradley.</s>Ms. CAROL BRADLEY: I really feel good about that. And that's the reason I'm here. I'd say God bless all the bartenders and waitresses that have made the Bloody Mary what it is.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Bradley contends that the cocktail was not named for a queen of England famously known as Bloody Mary.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: The inventor's granddaughter says the drink was actually named for a customer's favorite waitress.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: That would be Mary, who worked at a Chicago bar called The Bucket of Blood.
New York City honored the iconic cocktail with a Times Square celebration Monday that included the granddaughter of the bartender who invented it. The Bloody Mary turned 75.