In fact, I’ve not yet encountered a single reference to either the drink, or the Bodeguita, in all of my research, which spans about 20 years. Indeed, if he drank it, he generally wrote about it, somewhere. The Gin & Tonic at Museo Chicote in Madrid? See "The Denunciation," one of his short stories from the Spanish Civil War.ġ ounce honey syrup (made from a ratio of 1:1 water to honey)Īdd all ingredients to cocktail shaker with ice and shake. The Daiquiri and the Floridita are in countless letters, as well as in his novel Islands in the Stream. Harry’s Bar in Venice? You’ll find it his novel Across the River and into the Trees. The premise behind 'To Have and Have Another' is that Hemingway tended to write about what, and where he drank. Īs further evidence, you never see either La Bodeguita or the Mojito mentioned in any of Hemingway's prose, letters, or in his various biographies. Also shown are Hemingway’s friends Charles Thompson (front left), Joseph "Sloppy Joe" Russell (front right), and Hemingway’s second wife Pauline (behind Russell). Souvenir photo from the Floridita, one of Hemingway’s favorite bars in Havana, circa 1932. To say that it worked would be the understatement of the year -thousands flock to La Bodeguita each year to get their "Hemingway Mojito." Hell, even Pope Francis and Chinese President Xi Jinping have made that phony pilgrimage in recent years. But the little joke grew into a big lie." This was merely a private joke among friends. I protested this even though I enjoyed the humor at the beginning. Well, I had these things at home in Papa’s handwriting, so they hired a graphic artist to imitate it. Per Campoamor, in Trading With the Enemy by Tom Miller, "We were trying to figure out how to help his business, and someone said, ' Mi mojito en La Bodeguita, mi daiquiri en El Floridita.' It was a funny joke, nothing more. Martinez, were brainstorming with a Cuban journalist (and Hemingway friend), Fernando Campoamor, about how to gin up more business. Indeed, back in the late 1950s, the owners of the bodega, a Mr. The supposed Hemingway quote at La Bodeguita del Medio in Havana, Cuba. As for that inscription, it looks a lot like Hemingway’s handwriting, and it plainly says " My mojito in La Bodeguita, My daiquiri in El Floridita." So this is proof, right? Yet, aside from a handwritten quote on the wall at La Bodeguita, there exists no evidence that Hemingway ever drank Mojitos, or that he ever set foot in the joint. In my book, To Have and Have Another-A Hemingway Cocktail Companion, I set out to debunk common myths associated with him.Īccording to myth, Ernest Hemingway’s favorite drink was the Mojito, which he drank often at one of his favorite bars, La Bodeguita del Medio, in Havana, Cuba. So, too, is it with the prototype of The Most Interesting Man in the World, Ernest Hemingway. Many grew up hearing tales of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree, that emperor Nero played a mean fiddle while Rome burned, or that Newton needed to have an apple bonk him on the conk to figure out gravity. The greater the person, the more mythology surrounds him/her.
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