TK-0006 - Beachbum Berry Remixed, Jeff Berry

— disappeared from U.S. shelves, or
were reformulated with inferior ingredients.
Exciting new artisanal products
have since cropped up to fill the void.
Likewise, in the last few years
we’ve discovered alternate versions of
many historical recipes in both books,
some of them older, most of them better.
We’ve also unearthed an additional
40 “lost” vintage recipes that we’ve
been itching to share with you, along
with much more — and much more
accurate — historical information and
drink lore. You’ll find all of the above
additions and corrections in these pages.
We’ve also thrown in the five best
vintage drink recipes from our 2004
Polynesian Pop cookbook, Taboo Table.
But that’s just the first round.
mixologists, drink writers, and cocktail
consultants.
Because the Bum has no shame,
he’s also included 23 new recipes of his
own (he’d like to think he learned something
about making drinks in the last
few years, even if he learned nothing
about making a living).
Beachbum Berry Remixed is the
book we would have written first if we
knew then what we know now. With
any luck, we’ll know even more in the
future, and we’ll have an even more
thorough — and thoroughly vetted
— compendium for you. Don’t look for
it anytime soon, though. Seven years
may seem like a long time to you, but
we’ve taken naps longer than that.
Besides, we’ve got a reputation to live
down to. So until we meet again, happy
hangover!
In the introduction to Intoxica!
we reported that Polynesian-themed
bars were beginning to make a comeback,
but that “the cocktails served in
these nouveau Tiki taverns are on the
whole either too sweet and watery, or
too sweet and syrupy, or just plain too
sweet.” Seven years later, the Bum is
happy to eat these words — and not just
because he hasn’t had a square meal in
a while. Thanks to a renewed worldwide
interest in classic and culinary
cocktails, you can now get a perfectly
mixed tropical drink in bars from San
Francisco to Seattle, New York to New
Orleans, and Belfast to Bratislava. Or
you can just turn to Appendix II of this
book, where the Bum has compiled 43
of the best contemporary exotic recipes
he encountered in his recent travels to
these cities, along with other new originals
that he cadged especially for this
book from today’s most accomplished
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