The Beachbum always orders Rumaki at Polynesian restaurants, because no matter how many guests at his table, he invariably gets the dish to himself. People with high cholesterol, vegetarians, and calorie-counters all recoil like vampires exposed to sunlight when they discover that Rumaki consists of water chestnut and chicken liver wrapped in bacon, skewered and [...]
One of the best bar guides we raided for Beachbum Berry’s Grog Log was a phone book-sized tome published in 1977. Jones’ Complete Bar Guide featured a whopping 4,000 recipes, but even more impressive were the photos on the back cover. These featured author Stan Jones (above) posed with various liquor industry reps, whose Montgomery [...]
The ad above hails from 1969. Forty years later it’s not hard to imagine a shirt company and a liqueur under the same corporate umbrella, but back then it didn’t automatically follow that all companies were owned by parent companies. Which leads us to wonder: If this wasn’t a synergistic crossplug, how did Cherry Heering [...]
We note with sadness the passing of Jack Thornton, who was felled by a stroke on February 22, at the age of 78. With his brother Bob, Mr. Thornton opened the Mai-Kai restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1956. With five beautifully appointed dining rooms, a 30,000 square foot tropical garden, and food and drink [...]