A Disappointing Visit to Mai-Kai - Tiki Drinks and Food

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 4:50 PM On 2010-03-11 09:35, Swanky wrote: Ahu! 1st post in 2 years! Whoaaa, if it ain't Mr, "I've had a Coco Joe's collection since I was 5". Boy-o-boy, some folks are obviously just waitin' here in the wings, seething at every contribution to Tiki that I make, hoping I make a mistake! Pathetic. On 2010-03-11 07:07, KuKuAhu wrote: On 2010-03-11 00:51, bigbrotiki wrote: ..leading a new generation of mixologists (please note: another term that had gone extinct before published in the Book of Tiki :) ) Beachbum Berry's Grog Log 1998 Page two: "mixologist" Unless I am mistaken, that is two years before the BOT was published. So let's not start stealing the credit for the tiki drink revival, or the revival of mixology. Clearly that honor belongs to Jeff without exception. Pretentious indeed. Ahu I was in no way trying to "steal the credit for the Tiki drink revival." I was merely pointing out that the TERM "mixology" just like the term "Tiki", had practically become extinct (as in "was unknown in common use") before it for the first time appeared in book form, for an INTERNATIONAL MASS MARKET, in the Book of Tiki in the year 2000. In a chapter headlined MIXOLOGY AND CONCOCTIONS, written by no other than (!) my good friend JEFF BERRY, whaddaya know! Yes, it was first used in writing in the hand printed and self-bound version Jeff published of the Grog Log. Which was available to Tiki News subscribers and very much appreciated among the small group of Tiki aficionados in California and some other states at the time. And then, from the Grog Log's spiral bound version on, Jeff's booklets have steadily increased his work's distribution and thus the awareness of the art of mixology. Which I gladly and eagerly point out here at every opportunity as the foundation of the Polynesian cocktail revival (for which posts, strangely enough, I am never criticized as making "constant reminders"?) You know why I can say this? Because I was there with Jeff from the early 90s on. I was part of Tiki News, and part of the group of friends and early Tiki archeologists consisting of Jeff Berry, Bosko, Kevin Kidney, Otto, Josh Agle and a couple of others. This is not a boast. It's just how it was. And where were you? And what have you done since? Calling ME pretentious? Jeez.

On 2010-03-11 09:35, Swanky wrote:
Ahu! 1st post in 2 years!

Whoaaa, if it ain't Mr, "I've had a Coco Joe's collection since I was 5". Boy-o-boy, some folks are obviously just waitin' here in the wings, seething at every contribution to Tiki that I make, hoping I make a mistake! Pathetic.

On 2010-03-11 07:07, KuKuAhu wrote:

On 2010-03-11 00:51, bigbrotiki wrote:
..leading a new generation of mixologists (please note: another term that had gone extinct before published in the Book of Tiki :) )

Beachbum Berry's Grog Log 1998
Page two: "mixologist"
Unless I am mistaken, that is two years before the BOT was published.
So let's not start stealing the credit for the tiki drink revival, or the revival of mixology. Clearly that honor belongs to Jeff without exception.
Pretentious indeed.
Ahu

I was in no way trying to "steal the credit for the Tiki drink revival." I was merely pointing out that the TERM "mixology" just like the term "Tiki", had practically become extinct (as in "was unknown in common use") before it for the first time appeared in book form, for an INTERNATIONAL MASS MARKET, in the Book of Tiki in the year 2000. In a chapter headlined MIXOLOGY AND CONCOCTIONS, written by no other than (!) my good friend JEFF BERRY, whaddaya know!

Yes, it was first used in writing in the hand printed and self-bound version Jeff published of the Grog Log. Which was available to Tiki News subscribers and very much appreciated among the small group of Tiki aficionados in California and some other states at the time. And then, from the Grog Log's spiral bound version on, Jeff's booklets have steadily increased his work's distribution and thus the awareness of the art of mixology. Which I gladly and eagerly point out here at every opportunity as the foundation of the Polynesian cocktail revival (for which posts, strangely enough, I am never criticized as making "constant reminders"?)

You know why I can say this? Because I was there with Jeff from the early 90s on. I was part of Tiki News, and part of the group of friends and early Tiki archeologists consisting of Jeff Berry, Bosko, Kevin Kidney, Otto, Josh Agle and a couple of others. This is not a boast. It's just how it was. And where were you? And what have you done since? Calling ME pretentious? Jeez.

Post #516658 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 4:50 PM