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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Mar 25, 2015 1:26 PM Katherine, Thank YOU for the article, definitely sympathetic to the cause. Keep in mind the Saturday Evening Post article tells the story from Sunny's view only - Donn was in Hawaii and wasn't asked :) And you might not be aware of this, but there is a current phenomenon discussed here (and other Tiki sites) wherein Tiki is primarily considered a cocktail genre, not an art and design genre. This should be no surprise when the articles are written for sites called "serious eats","eater" and "imbibe" - like this "Tiki 101": http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2014/03/tiki-cocktail-history-basics-of-tiki-drinks-essential-ingredients.html ...which, if it would simply be called "Tiki COCKTAIL 101" would be so much more concise. I appreciate your well-intentioned effort to elevate Tiki above the "kitschy" ghetto that the media has condemned it to, yet it still seems that Tiki can only be talked about in an intelligent, respectable manner when discussing craft cocktails - the rest is still kitsch. One wonders though: Won't any of these new cocktailian scribes for whom Tiki is all about cocktails at some point ask themselves: "WHY is all this named "TIKI"? [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2015-03-25 15:15 ]

Katherine, Thank YOU for the article, definitely sympathetic to the cause. Keep in mind the Saturday Evening Post article tells the story from Sunny's view only - Donn was in Hawaii and wasn't asked :)

And you might not be aware of this, but there is a current phenomenon discussed here (and other Tiki sites) wherein Tiki is primarily considered a cocktail genre, not an art and design genre. This should be no surprise when the articles are written for sites called "serious eats","eater" and "imbibe" - like this "Tiki 101": http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2014/03/tiki-cocktail-history-basics-of-tiki-drinks-essential-ingredients.html
...which, if it would simply be called "Tiki COCKTAIL 101" would be so much more concise.

I appreciate your well-intentioned effort to elevate Tiki above the "kitschy" ghetto that the media has condemned it to, yet it still seems that Tiki can only be talked about in an intelligent, respectable manner when discussing craft cocktails - the rest is still kitsch. One wonders though: Won't any of these new cocktailian scribes for whom Tiki is all about cocktails at some point ask themselves: "WHY is all this named "TIKI"?

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2015-03-25 15:15 ]

Post #740075 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Mar 25, 2015 1:26 PM