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Death in the Afternoon Recipe
The earliest known recipe for this bracing little number appears in the magnificently named 1935 cocktail book, "So Red the Nose, or — Breath in the Afternoon," to which many famous authors of the day contributed recipes This one came from Ernest Hemingway, who explained: “This was arrived at by the author and three officers of H.M.S Danae after having spent seven hours overboard trying to get Capt
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