Post by Maxf1ex on Nov 5, 2011 15:45:23 GMT -8
Cuba remembers Ernest Hemingway with a Washington bar
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15585670
Aside from the fact that it serves liquor, Hemingway's isn't a bar in the traditional sense. Tucked inside the embassy, where the Cuban Interests Section resides, the bar has a strict invitation-only list.
It will be used for entertaining guests of the Interest Section, so tourists hoping to catch happy hour are out of luck.
It's illegal for the bar to conduct any commerce, but the embassy is free from the trade embargo that forbids importing products from the communist country. So drinks were on the house, made with Cuban rum that's normally impossible to find in the US.
Terry McAullife, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, ordered the first drink - Havana Club Rum, straight.
...
"So we decided to convert the warehouse annex into a bar dedicated to Hemingway."
While mojitos and Cuba Libras were being poured in the small back room that houses the bar, a 12-piece band played Latin music in the front of the hall.
...
Reporters, bureaucrats, and Cuban emigrants happily puffed away - but more than one skittish politico declined to have their pictures taken enjoying Cuban contraband.
"You can write this," one conceded. "An anonymous Hill staffer said the mojitos were fantastic.
Once again Congress will allowed them self what is Denied to the American people. Talk about a bunch of dead beats, free booze.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15585670
Aside from the fact that it serves liquor, Hemingway's isn't a bar in the traditional sense. Tucked inside the embassy, where the Cuban Interests Section resides, the bar has a strict invitation-only list.
It will be used for entertaining guests of the Interest Section, so tourists hoping to catch happy hour are out of luck.
It's illegal for the bar to conduct any commerce, but the embassy is free from the trade embargo that forbids importing products from the communist country. So drinks were on the house, made with Cuban rum that's normally impossible to find in the US.
Terry McAullife, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, ordered the first drink - Havana Club Rum, straight.
...
"So we decided to convert the warehouse annex into a bar dedicated to Hemingway."
While mojitos and Cuba Libras were being poured in the small back room that houses the bar, a 12-piece band played Latin music in the front of the hall.
...
Reporters, bureaucrats, and Cuban emigrants happily puffed away - but more than one skittish politico declined to have their pictures taken enjoying Cuban contraband.
"You can write this," one conceded. "An anonymous Hill staffer said the mojitos were fantastic.
Once again Congress will allowed them self what is Denied to the American people. Talk about a bunch of dead beats, free booze.
