tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940010684303946553.post2098804010680892184..comments2024-03-15T09:44:45.071-04:00Comments on cocktail <strike>virgin</strike> slut: hemingway daiquiriAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10706039136777492635noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940010684303946553.post-29547111012584946602017-05-13T18:00:59.590-04:002017-05-13T18:00:59.590-04:00Greetings from Atlanta. I've been sort of fasc...Greetings from Atlanta. I've been sort of fascinated by this cocktail for a while, did some internet "sleuthing," found a WST article on the drink (Hemingway's Daiquiri, by ERIC FELTEN, 24 May 2008). Here are a few quotes from that article and a final comment:<br /><br />"After meeting Hemingway over Daiquiris in 1948, A.E. Hotchner went on to<br />drink innumerable Papa Dobles at the Floridita with the great man himself, and<br />he paid attention to what Constante was doing. "A Papa Doble was compounded<br />of two and a half jiggers of Bacardi White Label Rum, the juice of two limes and<br />half a grapefruit and six drops of maraschino..." Hemingway "made a run of sixteen here one night."<br /><br />"A fanatic for dessication in his drinks, Hemingway allowed no sugar in his<br />Daiquiris. His Doble-drinking hero in the posthumously published "Islands in<br />the Stream" declares that what makes him love to drink is "drinking these<br />double frozens without sugar.""<br /><br />"To garnish a Papa Doble with a cherry is a small act of desecration (and I trust no one would be so nasty minded as to put any of the Day-Glo syrup from a modern cherry jar in the drink itself)."<br /><br />"The Papa Doble "had no taste of alcohol," Hemingway wrote, "and felt, as you drank them, the way downhill glacier skiing feels running through powder snow.""<br /><br />At home, I more-or-less follow the fruit/rum proportions above (about 3 shots of rum) and put it in a big glass full of crushed ice. Sad to say, though, I like the Day-Glo cherry on a tooth pick and a splash of its juice as a floater, both for a layer of color on top (makes a very pretty Easter-egg colored drink) and a bit of decadent flavor.<br /><br />Cheers!JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07461221374927716854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940010684303946553.post-49118548802918924002017-05-10T17:41:42.632-04:002017-05-10T17:41:42.632-04:00I'm having one tonight!
Cheers!I'm having one tonight! <br />Cheers!Dagrebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17776169159854683528noreply@blogger.com