Smuggler's Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki

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Steve Crane, the man behind the The Luau and the Kon Tiki chain of restaurants (the book refers to him as Tiki’s “Third Man,” behind Donn Beach and Trader Vic) was a Hollywood actor and was married to the famous actress Lana Turner. As a teaser before jumping into my thoughts about the volume overall, here are ten of my favorite factoids from within: One of my personal highlights from the book is the methodical breakdown of Tiki ingredients into three distinct palettes corresponding to Donn Beach, Trader Vic, and the Golden Era (1950s and 1960s). Each palette has these subsections: Although Martinique today makes nearly all of its rhum today from sugar cane juice (rhum “agricole”), it once made a substantial amount of molasses-based rhum–until a volcano explosion in 1902 wiped out many of the larger molasses-based distilleries.

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Donn Beach, the man who invented Tiki, is buried at the Punch Bowl Cemetery on Honolulu, HI. (If only I’d have known that when I was there a few years ago!)

The amount of Angostura bitters in a “dash” is varies widely between the “normal” 4 oz. bottle and the large 16 oz. bottle used at Smuggler’s Cove. (Editorial aside: Really, why would you buy only a 4 oz. bottle? But point taken.)

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