{"id":1453,"date":"2020-08-20T16:31:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambogdan.com\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2020-11-03T19:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T17:02:45","slug":"floridita-daiquiri-hemigway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambogdan.com\/floridita-daiquiri-hemigway\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemingway’s Love Affair with El Floridita\u2019s Daiquiri & Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"
“My mojito in the Bodeguita del Medio and my daiquiri in the Floridita.”<\/em> These are the words left by Hemingway himself on a signed quote still hanging on the wall of La Bodeguita del Medio in Havana, Cuba. “Papa”<\/em>, as he was often called,\u00a0had a long-lasting love affair with Cuba and he made sure the world would know it. His love for Cuba outlives in his writings through the voice of his characters. Daiquiri and Mojito were just two of the many things he loved about Cuba.<\/p>\n
Hemingway was a notorious boozer just as he was womaniser, fighter and hunter. The legend goes as far as saying that Hemingway outfished, outhunted and outdrank most of his contemporaries.<\/p>\n
In order to write about life, you must live it first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hemingway preferred to be drunk\u2014“not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless”. <\/em>He drank, he wrote, he sobered up and edited, then drank again.<\/p>\n
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Papa embraced what he called \u201cthe fiesta concept of life\u201d.<\/em> He was always seeking excitement and adventure. Always looking to have a \u201chell of a good time\u201d, <\/em>he had the guts to live his life as he pleased. Hemingway\u2019s close friend, A. E. Hotchner witnessed it all:<\/p>\n
I suppose the most remarkable thing about Ernest is that he has found time to do the things most men only dream about. He has had the courage, the initiative, the time, the enjoyment to travel, to digest it all, to write, to create it, in a sense. \u2014 A. E. Hotchner<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hemingway’s affair with drinking & writing<\/h2>\n
Hemigway was one people would call an Olympian drinker and he never claimed anything else. He liked his Martinis dry, his Mojitos sweet and his Daiquiri sugarless. Yet, beer, champagne<\/p>\n
Papa had a passion for drinking and no one did more to play up the heroic magnitude of the writer’s drinking than Hemingway himself. He was a firm believer that drinking in the local bars is the best way to know the people.<\/p>\n
Don’t bother with churches, government buildings or city squares, if you want to know about a culture, spend a night in its bars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n