Each morning while at home, James Bond prefers to eat the same breakfast. As usual, Ian Fleming spares no detail in relating this specific item in From Russia With Love: The single egg, in the dark blue egg cup with a gold ring around the top, was boiled for three and a third minutes. It … Read more
When James Bond is in New York City as Peter Franks (but traveling as James Bond, if that makes sense) in Diamonds Are Forever, he is booked into the Astor Hotel by the diamond smuggling organization he is working for. Because of that, unlike in Live and Let Die at the St Regis, Bond does … Read more
While on the road to Saratoga with Felix Leiter in Diamonds Are Forever, they stop for lunch at The Chicken in the Basket for lunch. The place seems dubious, But the scrambled eggs and sausages and hot buttered rye toast and the Millers Highlife beer came quickly and were good, and so was the iced … Read more
This American brand of cigarette pops up throughout the Bond novels. In Casino Royale, it is the brand that American agent Felix Leiter is smoking. As they get together for their first drink. Leiter shook at Chesterfield out of his pack. ‘I’m glad to be working with you on this job,’ he said, looking into … Read more
In the New York portion of Live and Let Die, James Bond spends his nights at the St Regis, a hotel built by John Jacob Astor IV as a companion to the Waldorf-Astoria. The hotel opened in 1904. They drew up at the best hotel in New York, the St Regis, at the corner of … Read more