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Drinking in James Bond

There’s more to Bond-san than a vodka martini, shaken, not stirred.

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Henry Jeffreys
Jan 24, 2025
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The latest episode of ‘Intoxicating History’ has just gone out and it looks at a perennially popular topic: drink in the James Bond Novels and films. So I’m posting a beefed up version of something I wrote a while back on this subject.

A study of drinking in the Ian Fleming novels calculated that in one book You Only Live Twice he drank 132 units in one …

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