Cooking With Hemingway | Stephanie Bernhard | The Millions | 19th February 2014

Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River is “essentially an instruction guide for camping and fishing”. Campfire recipes included. And how do those work in practice? You be the judge. “The flour was a pretty pearly gray, but the batter looked dead and gloppy and the cakes did not ‘bubble to porousness’ in the skillet. They did not bubble at all. Nick’s pancakes bubbled, and mine – following the same instructions – did not. A pinch of research revealed the reason: Nick was secretly using pancake mix“