Ingredients

  • 2 ounces vodka (or really, try gin, or even a blanco tequila)
  • 1/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
  • Dashes of salt and black pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon horseradish
  • 2 dashes Tabasco sauce
  • 3 dashes Worcestershire sauce
  • 4 ounces tomato juice

Method

  • Combine ingredients in a mixing glass and fill with ice. Gently roll from one glass to another until chilled (if you shake a Bloody Mary, the tomato juice will foam, and if you simply build it over ice in a glass, the ice will melt faster and the drink will become insipid before you have a chance to finish it). Strain into a Collins glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with a slice of lemon or lime or-who am I kidding?-pretty much anything short of the Hoover Dam.