The Hemingway Cookbook

About this book

Ernest Hemingways insatiable appetite for life was evident in his writing and equaled by little else than his voracious appetite for good food and drink. The Hemingway Cookbook collects for the first time more than 125 recipes from Hemingways life and art featuring such unique dishes as Dorado Fillet in Damn Good Sauce Woodcock Flamb in Armagnac Campfire Apple Pie and Fillet of Lion washed down with Campari and Gordons Gin or a cool Cuba Libre. These pages are enriched by family photos dining passages from stories such as A Moveable Feast The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms his short stories personal correspondence and even a contribution from his last wife Mary. Collecting recipes from former Hemingway haunts period cookbooks and other sources this book is an authentic re-creation of the meals that enriched Hemingways literature