Shaken, Not Stirred
Hemingway’s favorite tipple was a dry martini, and he liked them dry! He often had his characters drink whatever he was drinking in whatever city he was in when writing, and every Martini became drier than the last. In Across the River and Into the Trees, his character, Colonel Richard Cantwell, orders a bone-dry Montgomery martini that’s one part vermouth and 15 parts gin!
Frederic Henry said in A Farewell to Arms, like his character, “I had never tasted anything so cool and clean. They made me feel civilized.”
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