[...] figured I’d test the allegedly skilled bartenders, and order off the menu, a Hemingway daiquiri (pronounced, die-key-ree, by the way, it’s Cuban for God’s sake), a classic, superb [...]

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“He [Thomas Hudson, Hemingway's self-referential protagonist] had drunk double frozen daiquiris, the great ones that Constante [Grande, though his last name is not used in the book] made, that had no taste of alcohol and felt, as you drank them, the way downhill glacier skiing feels running through powder snow and, after the sixth and eighth, felt like downhill glacier skiing feels when you are running unroped.”

“He was drinking another of the frozen daiquiris with no sugar in it and as he lifted it, heavy and the glass frost-rimmed, he looked at the clear part below the trapped top and it reminded him of the sea. The frappéd part of the drink was like the wake of a ship and the clear part was the way the water looked when the bow cut it when you were in shallow water over marl bottom. That was almost the exact color.”

A little later Thomas Hudson says:

“This frozen daiquiri, so well beaten as it is, looks like the sea where the wave falls away from the bow of a ship when she is doing thirty knots.”

Hudson drinks at least 11 of these double frozens in one sitting by my count (he later estimates he had “about a dozen”), and that’s after starting the day with a whiskey while shaving and a Tom Collins while driving into town – not bad for a day’s work.

By the way, this is a great book for lovers of Hemingway and cocktails. The “Green Isaac’s Special” (also called a “Tomini” in the book), made with green coconut water, lime juice, gin and bitters, should really find its way onto the 320 Main menu … hint, hint.

[...] sitting at my desk at my day job. Twists on daiquiris are one of my favorite groups of drinks (the Hemingway Daiquiri is one of my top ten favorite drinks), and I had been wanting to make a drink as a tribute to [...]

[...] consulting the interwebz, I found out that one of Hemingway’s favorite drinks was called the Papa Doble. The Papa Doble is a variation of the classic Daiquiri (white rum, lime juice, and a bit of sugar). [...]

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