To Have and Have Another Revised Edition: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (985 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0399174907 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent book on Hemingway, drinking, and bars. What's not to like? Easy read, broken up into various chapters that each start with a drink recipe, progress through references where Hemingway wrote about the chapter's drink, and concluding with a short background story on the drink.. R. Kennedy said Drink Like Hemingway!. The airport lounge full of stranded travelers began to smell like the bull pens in Pamplona as the snow slowly buried Minneapolis in its fluffy sarcophagus. "Two more hours' delay, Ingles", said the shoe-shine boy on his fifth pass over my now-darkened natural canvas all-stars. "You had better take a walk to the bar by Gate 67 before your shoes stiffen up." I looked up from the book I had been reading. A good book. A book filled with hope, and. Absinthe Anyone? Travel back in time, into the pages of the life and lore of Hemingway with a drink in hand: Absinthe in Paris in the 20s, Champagne with bitters and a sugar cube in Stresa, Italy; a Maestro Collins with London dry gin while fishing for marlin out on the Gulf Stream between Key West and Havana. Philip Greene, master mixologist and Hemingway aficionado combines photos, anecdotes, side-bar items about bars, books, and drinking buddies -- and the
A bartender’s manual for Hemingway enthusiasts, this revised and expanded volume offers a unique take on Hemingway’s oeuvre that privileges the tastes, smells, and colors of the cocktails he enjoyed and the drinks he placed so prominently in his stories they were nearly characters themselves. Ernest Hemingway is nearly as famous for his drinking as he is for his writing. Throughout his collected works, Papa's sensuous explorations of the delights of imbibing engaged both his characters and his readers. To Have and Have Another delivers fascinating and lively background on the various drinks, their ingredients, their histories, and the characters—real and fictional—associated with them. . In To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion, Philip Gre
But a quick skimming of Philip Greene’s new book, To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion, reveals exactly how much the man enjoyed his cups.”—The New York Times“Might be the next best thing to drinking with Hemingway.”—Imbibe“Greene, the cofounder of the Museum of the American Cocktail, makes it easy to recreate some of Hemingway’s most memorable literary libations, including the Dripped Absinthe from For Whom the Bell Tolls and the Jack Rose from The Sun Also Ris
. Marine Corps, stationed at the Pentagon. Philip Greene is one of the founders of the Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and three daughters. He is a sought-after speaker on topics within cocktail history, as well as a mixology consultant for restaurants and institutions across the world.A descendant of the Peychaud fa