If there's one drink that's associated with writer Ernest Hemingway it's...
the daiquiri because there's a variety that bears his name — also the absinthe-champagne cocktail called Death in the Afternoon since he's not only said to have created the recipe, but it shares the name of one of his novels. Still, Hemingway did drink martinis as well (along with just about anything with a little alcohol in it) and had some pretty specific ideas about how they should be prepared. Okay, not a James Bond level of specificity.
He didn't require them to be made with both gin and vodka and shaken, not stirred. However, he did (quelle surprise). .
Why onions and not olives? And doesn't that technically make the drink a Gibson? It seems Hemingway was partial to aromatics. His s, and he added both garlic and onion to . (And yes, Hemingway was actually drinking Gibsons, but the word "martini" sounds manlier, so you probably shouldn't raise the issue with his revenant.
) One Hemingway character liked even dryer martinis "Write about what you know" is a quote famously attributed to everyone's high school ELA teacher, and Ernest Hemingway certainly took that to heart. , and in his 1952 novel he has his hero visit Harry's Bar in Venice (an establishment with which Hemingway was very familiar) and order "a very dry martini ..
. a double." To make sure the bartender would understand just how dry he needed his martini to be, he goes on to specify: "Montgomerys.
Fifteen to one." The Montgomery is a t.
