Ernest Hemingway (21 Jul 1899 – 2 July 1961) was, among other things, a war correspondant, bullfighting aficionado, American expatriate, novelist, cat-fancier, fisherman, sub-chaser, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner and, for our purposes here, a rather serious drinker. Ernest, or Papa, began drinking as a teenager in his cub reporter days and continued, unabated, throughout [...]

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1. Dig a pit. 2. Build a fire in the pit to heat rocks and accumulate coals. 3. Lower the pig into the coals. 4. Bury the pig beneath an insulating layer of dirt. 5. Wait a day. 6. Dig up the pig. 7. Eat the pig. These are the basics. For the full NYT [...]

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For approximately US$33,000 per bottle, you can now get your hands on one of 10 bottles of vintage 1907 Heidsieck & Co Monopole Champagne, that have been ageing gracefully in the depths of the Baltic Sea for the past 82 years, at the Ritz-Carlton Moscow. via

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