Moveable FeastDuring the course of one particularly hard Parisian winter, Ernest Hemingway resorted to hunting in the Luxembourg Gardens with his infant son Bumby.
Waiting until the gendarme on duty had wandered into a cafe for a glass of wine, the destitute writer would lure pigeons with a handful of corn, dispatch the hapless birds with a quick twist of the neck, and conceal their limp bodies under a blanket in Bumby's baby carriage. They could then be brought home to be prepared and eaten.
["If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man," Hemingway once wrote to a friend, "then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." (Thus the title for his posthumous memoir detailing life in the city's bohemian Latin Quarter in the 1920s: A Moveable Feast.)]
[Trivia: Ernest Hemingway's favorite meal? Raw onion sandwiches on buttered pumpernickel bread.]
Hemingway, Ernest Miller (1899-1961) American sportsman and writer, Nobel Prize recipient (Literature, 1954) [noted for his terse literary style; for his legendary machismo; and for such works as The Sun Also Rises (1926), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952)]
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