It is exactly 101 years since the Italian Count Negroni invented his cocktail in Florence. After visiting the American Wild West, he was no longer satisfied with his favorite cocktail, the Americano, and asked for an extra tic in the form of gin instead of water. The bartender added an orange peel and voila, the Negroni was born. The film Estômago is an up and coming Brazilian film but Brazil is simply a country full of different ethnicities so our hero Nonato gets to cook at a fancy Italian restaurant. He gets to drink the cocktail for the first time in a nightclub, and he immediately orders far too many. The film emphatically adds drops of the herbal bitters Angostura. This is not present in the Negroni’s original recipe, but an addition popular in South America. With Angostura, Nonato himself enriches the cocktail Maria Loco, a nonexistent cocktail popular in prison in the film.
