Post #720790 by Swanky on Mon, Jun 23, 2014 9:58 AM

BS!

I asked Donn's best friend if he had seen Donn experimenting, mixing and he said yes. There would be lots of drinks tasted and tossed.

What is in the book is one man's word vs. another and neither here to answer any more.

But here is the proof: The mixes. Don's Spices, #4 #7, etc. No one knew what was in them! Not even Ray Buhen. He said "oh that's cinnamon syrup", but that was his answer and does not mean it was exact. Look at the Mai-Kai and what is #7? I have Mariano's recipes in his hand writing and he has 3 recipes for #4 alone!

Yes, Donn kept the drink recipes a secret, but the "boys" had them. But not the special syrups. This is detailed in my coming book, but the actual place they were made was a secret. The bases were sent to McCadden and there were mixed with syrup and repackaged and sent to the various DtB locations. When #7 arrived in Chicago, it has a DtB McCadden label.

If Ray and the boys were making up these recipes then these special ingredients would have not been secrets either and in some other recipe book or end up as guess-work by them.

This is why the Mai-Kai stood alone as they had THE SOURCE for the secret spices and ordered them directly. But even they lost the recipes when they could no longer order them and they had to come up with their own versions of the originals.

If Ray Buhen created the Zombie, why was there no #7 or #4 recipe in his little black book?

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[ Edited by: Swanky 2014-06-23 09:59 ]