Ernest Hemingway is one of the most well known writers in the world. However, not many people know about his lifelong fascination with Africa.


For years I knew about Hemingway, having read some of his works, but in the summer of 2002, I fell under Hemingway's spell. That summer, I helped lead a large group of American students, their parents, and teachers on safari in some of the game parks of northern Tanzania: Ngorongoro, Serengeti, and Tarangire. The safari was organized by Thomson Safaris, http://www.thomsonsafaris.com, and my role was to incorporate folklore into the experience.


As I prepared for this trip, I decided to take Hemingway's African stories with me. I could not have made a better choice, as I wrote in a Tanzanian newspaper afterwards...

This book's objective is to make life (and what is life without food!) a little more interesting in the kitchen and on the table. Of course, there are many variations and a lot of the time it is enjoyable to just experiment with what you have in the cupboard.