Bond Trivia

So, as a die-hard Bond fan, I was worried about Mr Craig's performance in Casino Royale. I have just watched said movie, and can safely say it is excellent. Start of a new Bond era. More childish escapism for me. Yay.

Here is some Bond trivia from the novels and films.

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).

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.