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Saturday, February 8, 2014The MontgomeryI've been on a Hemingway kick as of late. I'm really loving Across the River and Into the Trees. A really underrated novel, the story takes place in Venice -- most of the action in Harry's Bar. A place I have not been but would love to see. It's here that Hemingway introduces us to his own version of the martini -- called The Montgomery. Below is the recipe.
The Montgomery
Hemingway ranked dry martini drinking somewhere
between bullfighting and big-game hunting in his list of manly pursuits.
Papa called this martini, which he drank at Harry’s Bar in Venice, the
Montgomery, after Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery. The joke goes
that Montgomery would not attack unless he had a 15:1 advantage in
forces, which is what Papa thought the gin-to-vermouth ratio was in this
drink.
It reality it is closer to 10:1.
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Have you read the Hemingway Cookbook yet? It's great fun and you will read Hemingway with different eyes, I guarantee it.
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I went on a Hemingway tear a few years ago after reading Parker's, Gunman Rhapsody. My brother-in-law got me that cookbook. Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom] << Home Subscribe to Posts [Atom] |
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