Breakfast with Hemingway

The famous author, Earnest Hemingway, was a facinating man with many strange habits. For one thing, he's rumored to have eaten kippered herring on toast and raw onion for breakfast. Sometimes with beer.  Kippered Herring is herring that has been preserved by kippering (a special technique of preserving herring, where the fish is split from head to tail, gutted, salted, and smoked).  Actually, herring for beakfast is a tradition in England, probably dating back to Medieval times.



My husband, Captn' Dan, is currently totally caught up in the Hemingway legend, which is cool by me, because I've been a Hemingway fan for many, many years.  When I was young(er), I really wanted to run before the bulls in Pamplona.  And Hemingway was one of the draws of Key West to me. That's where Dan really discovered him. We've toured his house there twice, peeking into the room above the poolhouse where he wrote most mornings, before hitting the Key West bars or going out fishing with his "Mob" aboard his wooden boat, the Pilar.  I have a Hemingway page on http://keywestcantina.com/ and I create art and products from old Hemingway photos. Yeah, we're fans. 

Captn' Dan's on the right

Capn' Dan entered the Hemingway-Look-Alike contest at Sloppy Joe's this year. We hope to get to go back and take a more active part in the Hemingway Days festivities in the future.  It was fun.  He's been reading books about and by Hemingway, and we're watching all the movies about him we can lay our hands on. We also ordered a model of the Pilar for our mantel. 

Last weekend, Capn' Dan took his research on Hemingway to a new level.  He tried Kippered Herring for breakfast. On toast. Without an onion.  No beer.

Me:  "So, Honey, how is it?"

Captn' Dan:  "Not bad, want to try some?"

Me:  "Nope, just wanted to know how it is for research purposes. I'll take your word on it."