The Hemingway Cocktail
He invented a Champagne cocktail named after one of his novels, Death in the Afternoon, also called the Hemingway or the Hemingway Champagne, made from absinthe and Champagne. Legend says Hemingway apparently could not abide leaving the table before the Champagne was done…
In a 1950 New Yorker Profile, Hemingway became frustrated with his lunchmates for trying to leave an unfinished bottle of Champagne on the table. He forthrightly proclaimed, “The half bottle of champagne is the enemy of man,” and made the group sit back down to finish the bottle. He was also quoted as saying he “can’t think of any better way of spending money than champagne.”
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