Ernest Hemingway Special
Ernest Hemingway Special

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by Tori Avey on Jun 20, 2013

Hemingway Special

"This frozen daiquiri, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship when she is doing thirty knots."

— Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
El Floridita Bar in Havana, Cube

El Floridita, Havana, Cuba. Source: Deposit Photos

Ernest Hemingway

Spencer Tracy with Ernest and Mary Hemingway in "El Floridita," Havana, Cuba ca. 1955. Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Source: Wikimedia Commons

"The Floridita was open now and he bought the two papers that were out, Crisol and Alerta, and took them to the bar with him. He took his seat on a tall bar stool at the extreme left of the bar. His back was against the wall toward the street and his left was covered by the wall behind the bar. He ordered a double frozen daiquiri with no sugar from Pedrico, who smiled his smile which was almost like the rictus on a dead man who has died from a suddenly broken back, and yet was a true and legitimate smile, and started to read Crisol."

— Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
Ernest Hemingway

Photograph of Ernest Hemingway at the Finca Vigía, his home in Cuba, 1946. Source: Wikimedia Commons

"He was drinking another of the frozen daiquiris with no sugar in it and as he lifted it, heavy and the glass frost-rimmed, he looked at the clear part below the frappéd top and it reminded him of the sea. The frappéd part of the drink was like the wake of a ship and the clear part was the way the water looked when the bow cut it when you were in shallow water over marl bottom. That was almost the exact color."

— Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
Hemingway Special

The Hemingway Special

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