Alberta
The Caesar: Clamato, vodka, Calgary.
Caesar Cocktail
The Caesar — vodka, Clamato, hot sauce and celery salt rimmed with celery salt and garnished wildly — is Canada's national cocktail, born in Calgary.
View page →Alberta is the prairie province on the eastern flank of the Rockies — Calgary and Edmonton — famed for ranching and beef since the late 19th century, producing most of Canada's cattle. The kitchen runs on grilled steak, thick-cut and flame-charred, the pride of any Albertan table, and the smell of charcoal smoke fills Calgary during the Stampede. The province's 'national dish' is actually a drink: the Caesar, a mix of vodka, Clamato (clam-tomato juice), hot sauce and celery salt, invented in 1969 at a Calgary hotel bar, now Canada's most-loved cocktail — a cousin of the Bloody Mary but entirely local, garnished with everything from a celery stick to a whole roast chicken. Plains and mountains give fewer ingredients than the coasts, but meat and drink make the character.
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Vodka, Clamato, hot sauce and celery salt — Canada's national cocktail, born in Calgary.
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