Ernest Hemingway was a soldier, a boxer, a hunter, a fisherman, a drinker, a father and the writer of words and stories that aimed to be, above all else, true and honest and pure. He also knew how to make one hell of a hamburger.
Hemingway would have turned 115 on July 21, and the man behind acclaimed novels such as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms and The Old Man And The Sea continues to generate reader interest – and not just in literary circles. The culinary world buzzed about his work earlier this year when the recipe for “Papa’s Favourite Wild West Hamburger” – typed but with handwritten annotations – was released by John F. Kennedy Memorial Library And Museum in Boston.