The drink’s advances were repelled, and Clamato was driven back northward, its dominion to remain forever Canada. A vodka that will enhance the details within the cocktail and bring out the spices, tone down the acidity and create an explosion of flavour. Give it a try! Some claim it’s a hangover cure, some claim it’s the best cocktail ever created and others contest that it’s just not a true long weekend without a Caesar in hand.

Listen up, patriots: May 14 is apparently National Caesar Day.So get out there and soak up all the spicy, clam-spiked happy meals in Mason jars. How do you make a truly great Caesar you might ask? The campaign to win American hearts and minds continues: “Not since the Bloody Mary created the first vodka revolution has a new combination stirred up so much excitement.
No wonder the revolution is sweeping the country – with new drink recipes and new names popping up everywhere.”You can certainly sense the delirium. Depending on the size of your heads of lettuce, you may not use all the oil. The Clamato juice, the celery salt, the Worchestire sauce (delicious, even if no one pronounces it right), the Tabasco …

All Hail Vitellus! Clamato is light, bright, refreshing, and makes a drink that’s less filling. It is not anti-Catholic bias that makes me dislike the Bloody Mary, that lumpish combination of tomato juice and vodka named after a 16th-century English queen who, despite the immense reach of her royal powers, found burning Protestants alive the most effective display of majesty. The typical answer goes as such: Vodka, Clamato Juice, Hot Sauce, Worcestershire Sauce, a Celery Salt- Rimmed glass and you’re good to go.

The Bloody Caesar or, as it’s more affectionately known, the Caesar is probably the most Canadian thing you can drink aside from a glass of Canada Dry ginger ale or Molson Canadian. Our vodka, Zirkova Together does just that. The effects of the first vodka revolution endure to this day on every Bushwick brunch menu — the Bloody Mary is still a fixture nationwide of any late-morning meal containing eggs — but revolution number two and its repercussions have long since vanished from memory. While Bloody Mary’s and Mimosa’s rule the brunch time roost in many other countries, the Caesar is iconic in Canada and a staple cocktail that has become Canada’s favourite cocktail.The Caesar was invented by the restaurant manger, Walter Chell, at the Calgary Inn, in Calgary, Alberta. Build the Caesar Add 1 oz Zirkova Together Vodka, 4 oz of Clamato Juice, 4 dashes of Worcestershire, 2 dashes of Tabasco, salt and pepper to taste.
However you put it, a Caesar is just plain delicious.

We sip brisk chilled Caesars on the patio on summer afternoons. The Caesar — nevermind the Clamdigger — is about as much a favourite in the States today as the Brandy Alexander or the Pisco Sour.Caesar adoration persists across Canada, happily. Others would say all of the above but it’s truly in the garnish, adding olives, pickles, mini sausages, cheese, celery, limes – the list goes on and on.

In Chell’s day, this would be self-made, but thanks to the fine people at Mott’s, whose Clamato mix was introduced to the market fortuitously in 1966, today it is mostly store-bought. The traditional Caesar typically contains vodka, Clamato (a proprietary blend of tomato juice and clam broth), Tabasco and Worcestershire sauce, and is served with ice in a large, celery salt-rimmed glass, typically garnished with a stalk of celery and wedge of lime. We can’t seem to get enough of them. Please try again© 2020 National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved.

All hail the Caesar, Canada's national drink. Purists may insist that an authentic Caesar truly demands clams mashed and mixed with tomato by hand, and aspiring mixologists with that kind of time on their hands may please feel free.For the rest of us, and indeed for any restaurant sensible of the value of its bar staff’s time, just stick with Clamato. Garnish with the cheese and croutons, then serve.