The Bar Journal

International Women’s Day, originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year.
In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women’s economic, political and social achievements.
Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries, primarily Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet bloc. In many regions, the day lost its political flavour, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love for women in a way somewhat similar to a mixture of Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day. In other regions, however, the original political and human rights theme designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner.

The mimosa is the symbol of the celebrations of Women’s Day
In Italy, to celebrate the day, men give yellow mimosas to women.

A Mimosa is a cocktail-like drink composed of one part champagne (or other sparkling wine) and one part thoroughly chilled citrus fruit juice, namely orange juice unless otherwise specified (e.g., “grapefruit -juice- mimosa”).
It is probably named after the yellow flowers of Acacia dealbata.

The story tails say that the Paris Ritz Hotel opened on this day in 1898 – one of the greatest, if not the greatest hotels in the world, and surely the one with the most celebrity stories. It is the the hotel that Coco Chanel made her home for over thirty years, including during the Nazi occupation (allegedly facilitated by her German lover), the hotel that Ernest Hemingway claimed to have personally liberated at the end of WW II, and about which he said “When I dream of the afterlife in heaven, the action always takes place at the Paris Ritz” (so they later named a bar after him).

Discussing the hotel is impossible without slipping into an orgy of name-dropping, and no ritzy name is more famous than that of Auguste Escoffier, who ran the kitchens at the Paris Ritz for years between his sojourns at the London Savoy and the London Ritz.

So, what about the MIMOSA?

There are two stories about the origin of the mimosa. One states that the adult beverage was invented at the Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1925. Second store says that a French bartender stole the idea from a London tavern that calls their almost identical concoction “Buck’s Fizz” around the same time.

If you ever find yourself brunching in the United Kingdom, you’ll want to order a Buck’s Fizz but If you’re in the rest of the world you’ll want order a MIMOSA.

Our personal recipe :

30ml Fresh Sanguinello Orange juice (Orange’s variety from sicily)
60ml MARTINI Asti Spumante

SALUTE!

GIUSEPPE GALLO