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The Hemingway Cookbook

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Mr. Boreth's vast knowledge and obvious love of the language of food shines through in this fantastic work. Nowhere else have I seen such a marriage of food and literature that makes all of one's senses tingle! This is an adventure for Hemingway fans-- it's not often one sits down and reads a cookbook cover to cover, and feels the combination of satisfaction and inspiration-- it sheds a new light on Hemingway and makes his fiction enjoyable on an entirely new level. Bravo!

Who would have thought to peer into Papa Hemingway's soul through his food and drink! Craig Boreth's detailed research and original analysis of how Hem's lust for culinary indulgence moulded the author's world view make The Hemingway Cookbook an important contribution to scholarship on the 20th-century literary giant. Even more, Boreth's witty writing style and accessible presentation of Papa's recipes make for a lively read and tasty fun in the kitchen. Make the mussels!

If you enjoy eating and drinking well, this book will show you how to go about it. The bar recipes are fantastic and the accompanying stories and anecdotes provide crackling fodder for dinner discussions. What fun to be able to recreate meals that you've read about - your own moveable feast! The gluhwein recipe alone will keep you warm and fuzzy all winter. I happily recommend this book to all, Hemingway enthusiasts and critics alike!

Mr. Boreth has put together an impressive work that is like cotton candy for the eyes. His presentation of Hemmingway's favorite food and drink recipes is truly an accomplishment that will most likely ride to the top of the list of great quirky cookbooks. I spend a lot of time alone, and when I am home I like to cook up a good meal. Mr. Boreth's book has already given me many nights of joy. A wonderful book for fans of both Papa and Tripper.

This book is simply great. Good chow and lots of neat pictures and information about Hemingway. I use it as a gift and makes it easy.

The thing I liked most about this book is the way Boreth uses the life of Hemingway to bring together so many fascinating places, tastes, people, and ideas. It gives you a wonderful sense of a great life, and some tasty recipes to boot.

Great fun! A tour of Hemingway's world through (and with) his food. The recipes are easy to make and delicious (the Lime Ice is divine!). The cookbook is greatly enhanced by pictures of Hemingway interspersed with thoughtful and insightful commentary on his life and its influence on his work.

Mr. Boreth's Hemingway cookbook is truly an accomplishment! Never before have I found such rich context for recipes in a cookbook--It allows you to enter Hemingway's world in a whole new way. Bravo!

Ernest Hemingway lived a full life; and of that life, the closest we can come is to eat and drink what the greatest American writer who ever lived ate and drank.
We cannot enjoy the women he had -- and maybe some we have had were even better than he had. Right, BESK-R? And maybe we are too poor to enjoy the places he loved, or to engage in safari with the big game he pursued.
But we can eat and drink; and that is the sheer joy of this book.
You will learn how to cook the simple food that Hem loved, and to make the perfect martini, with the best gin and the best vermouth.
My only problem is that, when I tried the swordfish recipe, I failed...miserably. But perhaps you are a better cook and will succeed at the very beginning.
So here is the list of Hemingway booze, which you can buy with confidence and know that it has Papa's approval: Gordon's Gin, Noilly Pratt vermouth, Bacardi rum, Old Forester bourbon, Cutty Sark, J&B, and Chivas Regal Scotch, plus Campari, Schweppes tonic water, and rum from Martinique. The wines are too numerous to list; and you probably have your own favorites anyway.
Enjoy.

Hemingway, the man who said 'Living well is the best revenge' knew how to do just that. This book shows you how he did it. So tag along, you'll be living better and enjoying your revenge in no time.
Boreth did his homework, and it shows. Any fan of Hemingway will enjoy this book, and even non-fans will probably enjoy the recipes. Plenty of good food and drink knowledge herein, and enough details about Hem/the recipes/the books to interest anyone. Good book, pretty fair cookbook.