Les Jones

Food & Drink > Vodka Blush, the Drink from "Rosemary's Baby"

For our Halloween movie we watched Rosemary's Baby tonight. What a great movie. It's beautifully shot, but understated. Mia Farrow is wonderful.

Were those her T&A or did they belong to T&A doubles? I'll have to Google it.

In one scene they're drinking Vodka Blushes ("Vodka Blush? Have you ever tasted one? They're very popular in Australia").

I had never heard of them, so I Googled. The first page I checked was at Cocktails.about.com: "Vodka Blush Sauce - This is not from Rosemary's Baby." I finally found the recipe thanks to those friendly folks at the Church of Satan:

2 1/2 ounces Vodka
3/4 ounces freshly-squeezed lime juice(strained)
Dash Grenadine

Fill shaker 2/3 with fresh ice. Add ingredients. Shake and strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Enjoy, and spill a little on the carpet in memory of Minnie and Roman!

More trivia: Frank Sinatra served Mia Farrow with divorce papers on the set of the movie.

Director Roman Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was killed by Charles Manson. Tate has an unbilled cameo in the movie as one of Rosemary's guests at a party for her friends. Manson took his inspiration from The Beatles' White Album.

The apartment building in the movie is called the Bamford. In reality it's the Dakota, the building where John Lennon later lived and was murdered by Mark David Chapan. As Count Floyd would say, "Ewwwww... Skerry."