BEACHBUM BERRY REMIXED
The global Tiki Drink revival is in full swing. But without Beachbum Berry’s Grog Log (1998) and Intoxica! (2002), there’d be nothing to drink. These two groundbreaking books revealed the top-secret, never-before-published, “lost” exotic drink recipes from Tiki’s original midcentury heyday. The Bum has unearthed a lot more recipes since his first two books, and picked up a lot more drink lore too. He’s spilling it all in Beachbum Berry Remixed, a completely revised and updated anthology of Grog Log and Intoxica! This is the book the Bum would have written first if he knew then what he knows now. Featuring 107 additional recipes: 41 newly discovered, previously unpublished vintage Tiki drink recipes; 43 of the best new recipes from today’s Tiki revival, gathered especially for Remixed from the world’s top mixologists and cocktail writers; and 23 new original recipes by the Bum. Plus full-color vintage graphics and original drink photography; expanded drink history and lore, incorporating newly discovered information about the origins of the Mai Tai and other legendary Tiki mysteries; and a revamped ingredient glossary with new product recommendations.
“Mr. Berry’s lasting contribution may be in salvaging tropical drinks from decades of bad bartending.” — Steven Kurutz, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Like an imbiber’s Indiana Jones on the trail of ancient tropical cocktails, Jeff ‘Beachbum’ Berry is the raider of a lost art.” — Noah Bonaparte Pais, GAMBIT WEEKLY
BEACHBUM BERRY’S SIPPIN’ SAFARI
Beachbum Berry’s fourth book in search of the great “lost” tropical drink recipes — and the people behind them. This time out, the Bum offers up 69 newly discovered vintage tropical drink recipes, 48 of which have never before seen print in any form. But that’s just the beginning. He also tells stories about some of the most famous figures of the Polynesian Pop era, culled from interviews with those who actually created the midcentury Tiki scene. Sippin’ profiles people as colorful as the drinks they invented, or served, or simply drank. People like Leon Lontoc, the Don The Beachcomber’s waiter who served Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando by night, and acted in their movies by day; Henry Riddle, the Malibu Seacomber bartender who fed items about his famous customers to infamous gossip columnist Louella Parsons, till the day Howard Hughes found him out; and Duke Kahanamoku, whose manager turned him from Olympic champion into reluctant restaurateur. Profusely illustrated in full color, with vintage graphics and rare photographs.
“Publisher’s pick! A well-written, profusely illustrated narrative of the people and bars responsible for the tropical drink craze that helped lubricate the ’50s and ’60s.” — ATOMIC RANCH MAGAZINE
BEACHBUM BERRY’S TABOO TABLE
A taste of history! Uncover forbidden secrets of feastworthy food on a Cook’s Tour of legendary Polynesian restaurants, with long-lost recipes from Don The Beachcomber’s, Trader Vic’s, and other famous mid-century tiki kitchens. Tropical drink-lovers take heart — party punches and exotic cocktails have a welcome place on the Taboo Table.
“Taboo Table is a trippy ride back in time to the days of Don The Beachcomber, Trader Vic’s and other tiki kitchens, complete with both food and cocktail recipes. Rumaki and a Mai Tai anyone? I’m in.” — Lauren Gaudin, EMERILS.COM
“A unique collection of South Sea themed vintage recipes that is enhanced with an informed and informative history of tiki cuisine from the first Polynesian settlers to the last remaining Polynesian restaurants … welcome and recommended.” — WISCONSIN BOOKWATCH
BEACHBUM BERRY’S GROG LOG
Our maiden voyage into the lost world of vintage Tiki drinks. Here’s what William Grimes had to say about it in his 1998 New York Times review: “Jeff Berry and Annene Kaye, serious students of tiki, have compiled a serious tiki cocktail book … In 96 spiral-bound pages adorned with tiki illustrations, the authors have ranged far and wide to gather classic Polynesian fakes, like the Fog Cutter from Trader Vic’s, the Missionary’s Downfall from Don the Beachcomber and the Sidewinder’s Fang from the Lanai Restaurant in San Mateo, Calif. They have even managed to unearth Manhattan tiki cocktails, like the Hawaiian Room, served at the old Hotel Lexington in the 1940′s … As Mr. Berry and Ms. Kaye see it, they are giving the country the perfect drink book for the age of malaise. ‘If we’re going to feel like zombies,’ they write in their preface, ‘we may as well be drinking them.’”
“The island bar bible.” — Betsy Streisand, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
“The best bar guide for tropical drinks ever published.” — Joe Bob Briggs, THE NATIONAL REVIEW