Recipes from the cocktail cabinet of literature's most notorious drinker: ‘If it gets too powerful, weaken with more tomato juice – if it lacks authority add more vodka'
Exactly one hundred years ago, on July 21, 1925, Ernest Hemingway celebrated his 26th birthday by starting work on his debut novel, The Sun Also Rises. Not only was it the opening starburst in a career full of literary firecrackers which culminated in a Nobel Prize, it also introduced the wider public to the author's hard-drinking habits that were second only to his prowess with words.
Hemingway is said to have drunk 16 double Daiquiris in a single night in a Havana cocktail bar. He liked his Martinis made with 15 parts gin to one part vermouth, and notched up 51 of them on a bar tab at the Paris Ritz. Bloody Marys were a favourite, so too were Mojitos. He even invented a cocktail of his own.
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