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BOND'S LIFESTYLE
One of the defining characters of Bond's personality is his exquisite and rather finicky taste. The following facts are from the books by Fleming.
FOOD :
Coffee: Two large cups in the morning, black and without sugar, of very strong coffee, from De Bry in New Oxford Street, brewed in an American Chemex .
Breakfast: A single egg (very fresh, speckled brown egg from a French Marans hen) in a dark blue egg cup with a gold ring round the top, boiled exactly for three and a third minutes with two slices of whole wheat toast, a large pat of deep yellow Jersey butter and three squat glass jars containing Tiptree "Little Scarlet" strawberry jam; Cooper's Vintage Oxford marmalade and Norwegian Heather Honey from Fortnum's.
Scrambled Eggs: This is how 007 likes them;
Ingredients for four people: 12 fresh eggs, salt and pepper, 5-6oz fresh butter
Break the eggs into a bowl. Beat thoroughly with a fork and season well.
Melt 40z butter in a small copper (or heavy bottomed) saucepan.
When melted, pour in eggs and cook over a very low heat, whisking continuously
with a small egg whisk
While eggs are slightly more moist than you would wish for eating, remove pan
from heat, add rest of butter, and continue whisking for a minute, adding finely
chopped chives of fine herbs as you do so.
Serve on hot buttered toast in individual copper dishes with Taittinger and low
music.
Cutlery: The coffee pot and the silver are
Queen Anne and the china is Minton.
(From Russia With Love, written in 1956).
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DRINKS :
Martini: The trademark Bond's choice of
'vodka martini, medium dry, shaken not stirred' prepared in the following way
Add 4 measures Vodka
Add 1 measure dry Vermouth
Shake with ice. Do not stir.
Add 1 green olive
Garnish with a thin slice of lemon peel
Another cocktail designed by Bond in Casino Royale and named after the girl with
him is 'Vesper' prepared by adding 3 measures Gordon's Gin,1 measure
Vodka, 1 measure blond Lillet vermouth,shaken very well until it's ice cold and
garnished with a slice of lemon peel.
Champagne: Dom Perignon ( preferably'53) and Bollinger. Feels
drinking Dom Perignon '53 above a temperature of 38 degrees farenheit is as bad
as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs. (in Goldfinger)
Dress: Prefers suits by the Italian Brioni.
Cigarettes : Custom made Mooreland’s with 3 golden stripes.
Vehicle: In the novels he prefers driving a 1933 4.5 litre Bentley. In the movies, its mostly a Aston Martin DB5. (Its license number is BMT 216A, except in Goldeneye where it is BMT 214A)
Guns: .25 Beretta, Walther PPK and now Walther P99.(Also the Heckler & Koch P7). Click here for more info.
Writes with a Mont Blanc pen.