April 1, 2017

Perfect score !



Books for my brother's birthday. Hope to read the Hemingway one before the event.

June 28, 2015

Another sign of Summer : Big Brother 17. A guilty pleasure, I enjoy the betrayals and how they get packaged for an ultimate vote by the ones who were betrayed. This cast looks interesting.



Lillian Ross' piece about Hemingway from 1950 was terrific.

“Time is the least thing we have of.”



Summer Restaurant Week is coming. Reservations open July 13th, menus should be posted then too.

March 8, 2014

Came across Ernest Hemingway's Bloody Mary recipe:

“To make a pitcher of Blood Marys (any similar amount is worthless) take a good sized pitcher and put in it as big a lump of ice as it will hold. (This to prevent too rapid melting and watering of our product.) Mix a pint of good russian vodka and an equal amount of chilled tomato juice. Add a table spoon full of Worchester Sauce. Lea and Perrins is usual but can use AI or any good beef-steak sauce. Stir. (with two rs) Then add a jigger of fresh squeezed lime juice. Stirr. Then add small amounts of celery salt, cayenne pepper, black pepper. Keep on stirring and taste to see how it is doing. If you get it too powerful weaken with more tomato juice. If it lacks authority add more vodka.”


I like the line: "If it lacks authority add more vodka." I would also add Horseradish.

November 11, 2010 - Veterans Day

The United States government has declared that the attributive (no apostrophe) rather than the possessive case is the official spelling.



Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda will be released on November 16th. On the to-read list.



Irish Dry Stout 3.70% ABV . This is a real good brew. I prefer a little more kick, but the flavors and freshness make this a winner. Made by Victory Brewing Company in Pennsylvania.



Blue Point Toxic Sludge :Black IPA / Cascadian Dark Ale | 7.00% ABV.

Blue Point will donate 100% of net proceeds from Toxic Sludge to Delaware-based Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research to fund their Spreading Our Wings Campaign and long term efforts to build a Wildlife Response Annex.

I toast the Blue Point Brewery for such a great idea. Ironic, that the initials for the Brewery = BP.



Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21, The Paris Review.
Interviewed by George Plimpton
INTERVIEWER
Well, perhaps it would be better put this way: Graham Greene said that a ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system. You yourself have said, I believe, that great writing comes out of a sense of injustice. Do you consider it important that a novelist be dominated in this way—by some such compelling sense?
HEMINGWAY
Mr. Greene has a facility for making statements that I do not possess. It would be impossible for me to make generalizations about a shelf of novels or a wisp of snipe or a gaggle of geese. I’ll try a generalization though. A writer without a sense of justice and of injustice would be better off editing the yearbook of a school for exceptional children than writing novels. Another generalization. You see; they are not so difficult when they are sufficiently obvious. The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.