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Just finished reading this posthumously published Hemingway novel. I had forgotten how much detail he wrote about the drinks and food. Some of the beverages, in case you are interested in what he (and/or his characters) were drinking in France and Spain in the '40's:
Beer: Tuborg
Champagne: Lanson, Perrier Jouet, Bollinger Brut 1915
Wines: Tavel, Manzanilla, Valdepenas
Drinks: Fine a'leau (brandy and water), Pernod (absinthe) and water, Vermouth and soda, Armagnac and Perrier (could be the same as the Fine a'leau), Tom Collins
The two most common drinks in this novel are:
Haig Pinch whiskey and Perrier
Martinis, with Gordons Gin, Noilly Prat vermouth, and garlic olives.
In another article, he mentioned Gordons again:
Hemingway was well aware of his allure to marketers. He once offered an unpaid product endorsement, as he recounted in a 1954 article in Look magazine describing an African safari that ended when he and his wife, Mary, were seriously injured when their small plane crashed. Hemingway reported that Gordon's gin had served as both topical antiseptic and balm for the spirit:
I do not work for the Gordon's people and this is a testimonial which I offer freely and in what I hope is my right mind. This beverage is one of the sovereign antiseptics of our time. . . . Gordon's product is of approved merit and can be counted on to fortify, mollify and cauterize practically all internal or external injuries. -- ''By-Line: Ernest Hemingway'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967)
But on another occasion, witnessed by Lillian Ross, he contemptuously declined to accept an offer to endorse Lord Calvert whisky by appearing in its ''Men of Distinction'' advertising campaign.
The telephone rang and Hemingway picked it up, listened, said a few words, and then turned to us and said that an outfit called Endorsements Inc. had offered him $4,000 to pose as a Man of Distinction. ''I told them I wouldn't drink the stuff for $4,000,'' he said.
Beer: Tuborg
Champagne: Lanson, Perrier Jouet, Bollinger Brut 1915
Wines: Tavel, Manzanilla, Valdepenas
Drinks: Fine a'leau (brandy and water), Pernod (absinthe) and water, Vermouth and soda, Armagnac and Perrier (could be the same as the Fine a'leau), Tom Collins
The two most common drinks in this novel are:
Haig Pinch whiskey and Perrier
Martinis, with Gordons Gin, Noilly Prat vermouth, and garlic olives.
In another article, he mentioned Gordons again:
Hemingway was well aware of his allure to marketers. He once offered an unpaid product endorsement, as he recounted in a 1954 article in Look magazine describing an African safari that ended when he and his wife, Mary, were seriously injured when their small plane crashed. Hemingway reported that Gordon's gin had served as both topical antiseptic and balm for the spirit:
I do not work for the Gordon's people and this is a testimonial which I offer freely and in what I hope is my right mind. This beverage is one of the sovereign antiseptics of our time. . . . Gordon's product is of approved merit and can be counted on to fortify, mollify and cauterize practically all internal or external injuries. -- ''By-Line: Ernest Hemingway'' (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967)
But on another occasion, witnessed by Lillian Ross, he contemptuously declined to accept an offer to endorse Lord Calvert whisky by appearing in its ''Men of Distinction'' advertising campaign.
The telephone rang and Hemingway picked it up, listened, said a few words, and then turned to us and said that an outfit called Endorsements Inc. had offered him $4,000 to pose as a Man of Distinction. ''I told them I wouldn't drink the stuff for $4,000,'' he said.
