Yahoo: Bar Hemingway's Colin Field shares tips on how to build the perfect bar and cocktail
Aug. 4, 2017
For the best cocktail, never mix more than three ingredients, and try to refrain from muddling your mint into mush.
That comes straight from award-winning barman Colin Field, who was asked to share tips on how to tend the perfect at-home bar this season.
For over 20 years, Field has been the face of the historic Bar Hemingway in Paris, named after its most famous client, Ernest Hemingway.
Frozen elegantly in the 1920s, the small, intimate enclave is tucked at the rear of the five-star Ritz Paris hotel, which recently re-opened last year.
It's where Hemingway spent hours in conversation with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gary Cooper, and where Cole Porter is said to have composed "Begin the Beguine."
Maybe the bar inspires artful storytelling and composition. Because like Hemingway, Field has a natural way with words -- albeit more poetic and embellished than Hemingway's stark minimalism.
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