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Article: Across the River and into the Ritz.(author Ernest Hemingway's favorite restaurants in Paris, France)
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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A tour of Hemingway's favorite haunts on both sides of the Seine
LIFE'S GREATEST GIFT to Ernest Hemingway was his appetite, and he was lucky to have been born (one hundred years ago this month) in an era that allowed him to indulge it. No one traveled more widely or immersed himself so deeply in the culture of a place. Hemingway knew every cafe in Pamplona, every hotel worth staying at in Switzerland, every concierge in Paris, and the price of marlin roe in Havana. At a time when the word intrepid had real meaning, he was undoubtedly the greatest and most influential travel writer since Marco Polo, and much of his finest work in that genre appeared in this ...