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“Watch Out How that Egg Runs”: Hemingway and the Rhetoric of American Road Food
- The Hemingway Review
- University of Idaho Department of English
- Volume 33, Number 1, Fall 2013
- pp. 79-85
- 10.1353/hem.2013.0033
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Focusing on Hemingway’s experience before his Lost Generation years, this essay examines the gendered implications of “road food” in some of the Nick Adams stories and looks at how local culinary knowledge can forge both male autonomy and friendships, aiding survival in a world where, as Nick says in “The Battler,” “you got to be tough.”