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B is for Bloody Mary

Bridget reaches for a Bloody Mary as a cure to most life dramas:

“Rang up Jude about Waspy, Rebecca, job interview, Mum, Daniel and general misery and arranged to meet at Jimmy Bee at two for a Bloody Mary.”

But she doesn’t include this in her daily alcohol unit count as she includes this in her diet as food:

“Food consumed today:
2 pkts Emmental cheese slices
14 cold new potatoes
2 Bloody Marys (Count as food as contains Worcester Sauce and tomatoes)
1/3 Ciabatta loaf with Brie
coriander leaves-1/2 packet
12 Milk Tray (best to get rid of all Christmas confectionary in one go and make fresh start tomorrow)
13 cocktail sticks securing cheese and pineapple
Portion Una Alconbury’s turkey curry, peas and bananas
Portion Una Alconbury’s Raspberry Surprise made with Bourbon biscuits tinned raspberries, eight gallons of whipped cream, decorated with glace cherries and angelica.”

(Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding)

C is for Champagne

Champagne makes a regular appearance as the offering for a dinner party or at the start of a blossoming relationship.

(Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding)

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G is for Grand Marnier

Grand Marnier pops up in Bridget’s dinner party repertoire when cooking for her friend’s and their vile partners:

“7-7.05. Prepare Grand Marnier soufflés. (Actually think will have a little taste of Grand Marnier now. It is my birthday, after all.)”

She’s also been known to swig out of the bottle when mother’s boyfriend has run off with the life savings.

(Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding)

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K is for Kir Royale

A cocktail mixing together crème de cassis and champagne, but Prosecco has been known to replace the champagne. It’s usually served in a flute and glass and sipped slowly, but not in Sharon’s case;

“Sharon was on top form. ‘Bastards!’ she was already yelling by 8.35, pouring three-quarters of a glass of Kir Royale straight down her throat.”

(Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding)

L is for Laurent-Perrier

Fielding doesn’t specify if the champagne that Bridget drinks is Laurent-Perrier, but when her well-to-do friend Magda, races her husband’s convertible Saab to Bridget’s screaming that her husband Jeremy is “having a fucking affair” and wakes the street up with the car alarm, it is a bottle of Laurent-Perrier that Magda is swigging out of:

“ ‘I’m not bloody coming back, you bastard!’ Magda was yelling. ‘Just tell me how to open the fucking bonnet.’
Magda and I were both in the car now, pulling every lever we could find, Magda swigging intermittently at a bottle of Laurent-Perrier. By this time an angry mob was gathering.”

(Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding)

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P is for Pauillac

A crimson classic that is suited to savour with rich beef dishes such oxtail, but in this novel this wine doesn’t have much time to touch the sides of the glass:

“At dinner Magda had placed me, in an incestuous-sex-sandwich sort of way, between Cosmo and Jeremy’s crashing bore of a brother. ‘You really ought to hurry up and get sprogged up, you know old girl,’ said Cosmo, pouring a quarter of a pint of ’82 Pauillac straight down his throat. ‘Time’s running out.’

By this time I’d had a good half-pint of ’82 Pauillac myself. ‘Is it one in three marriages that end in divorce now or one in two?’ I slurred with a pointless attempt at sarcasm.”

(Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding)

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S is for Sherry

Sherry is enjoyed by the guests at the New Year Turkey Curry Buffet at the Alconbury’s house, but not by Bridget:

“The worst of it was that Una Alconbury and Mum wouldn’t leave it at that. They kept me walking round with trays of gherkins and glasses of cream sherry in a desperate bid to throw me into Mark Darcy’s path yet again.”

(Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding)

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V is for Vodka

Throughout the book this is enjoyed mixed with tonic, orange juice, tomato juice and Worcester Sauce or just straight!:

“After rooftop encounter I didn’t say a single word to Daniel: just put my nose in the air, slithered past him, marched down to the street into the car and drove away. Went immediately to Tom’s, who poured vodka straight down my throat from the bottle, adding the tomato juice and Worcester Sauce afterwards.”

(Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding)

W is for Wine

Is a staple diet for Bridget and her friends; Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio and sparkling wine:

“On way home in end-of-Christmas denial I bought a packet of chocolate tree decorations and a £3.69 bottle of sparkling wine from Norway, Pakistan or similar.”

(Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding)

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