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TRADER VIC'S TIKI PARTY BOOK

Our Price: $20.00

#B427

COCKTAILS & FOOD TO SHARE WITH FRIENDS

Steve Siegelman - 8" x 8" - 184 Pages - Color Photos - Hardcover

The tiki volcano is erupting all over again, and now Trader Vic’s, the legendary purveyor of Polynesian food, drinks, and fantasy, wants to help us bring it all home. Step behind the bar and into the kitchen at Trader Vic’s and learn how to create the kind of tiki magic that made "the Trader" famous. It’s all here: recipes for 95 of the restaurant’s best-loved tropical cocktails and after-dinner drinks along with more than 35 party-friendly recipes for pupus, tidbits, finger food, entrées, and desserts—all adapted from the past and present menus of Trader Vic’s. Dozens of tips and ideas for inexpensive, easy tiki decorating and entertaining at home are included, as is a guide to the basics of bartending equipment and techniques. Whether it’s a blowout tiki party for friends or a spontaneous occasion to dust off the shaker, this book brings favorite concoctions from Trader Vic’s into your home.

An entertaining guide from Trader Vic’s restaurant including 130 recipes for cocktails, pupus, finger food, entrées, and desserts. Cocktail recipes include the Samoan Fog Cutter, the Tiki Puka Puka, Scorpion, the Kamaiina, and The Original Mai Tai, invented by Trader Vic himself in 1944. Appetizer recipes include crowd-pleasing pan-Asian small plates and nibbles, like Crispy Prawns, Cha Siu Pork, Ahi Tuna Poke, and Key Lime Chiffon Tartlets. Throw a rocking tiki party using the decorating, music-selection, bar-stocking, and menu-planning tips found here.

BEACHBUM BERRY'S SIPPIN' SAFARI BOOK

Our Price: $20.00

#B426

Jeff Berry - 5-1/2" x 8-1/4" - 183 Pages - Color Photos - Softcover

The new book by the Author of The Grog Log, Intoxica and Taboo Table. Beach Bum Berry, as he is better known, is America's leading authority on tropical drinks and Polynesian pop-culture. In this all new book, Berry not only offers up tantalizing new drink recipes, but tells stories about some of the most famous figures of their time. The Bum applies the same dogged research to the untold stories of the people behind the drinks, stories culled from over 100 interviews with those who actually created the mid-century Tiki scene -- people as colorful as the drinks they invented, or served, or simply drank. People like:

* Leon Lontoc, Don The Beachcomber's waiter who served Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando by night, and acted in their movies by day;
* Henry Riddle, the Malibu Seacomber bartender who fed items about his famous customers to infamous gossip columnist Louella Parsons, till the day Howard Hughes found him out;
* Duke Kamanamoku, whose manager turned him from Olympic champion into reluctant restaurateur.

HOLIDAY GIFT-GIVING RECIPES BOOK

Our Price: $9.00

#B412

Muriel Miura - 4-1/2" x 6-1/4" - 80 Pages - Color Photos - Hardcover

Create your own "Island Style" holiday gifts from beginning to end with a personal touch of Aloha. Here are over 40 simple and delicous recipes for snacks, breads, jams, oils, salad dressings, and various other goodies. Complete with tips and photos for wrapping and adding finishing touches to jars, baskets, and boxes with raffia, tapa, ribbon, etc. to give them a disctinct Hawaiian flavor. Recipes include: Guava Chiffon Pie, Almond Cookies, Lemon Coconut Bars, Caramelized Macadamia Nuts, Spicy Kaki Mochi, Poha Jam, Maui Barbecue Sauce, Fudge, Raspberry Vinegar, Spiced Seasoned Salt, and more.

HAWAIIAN LUAU BOOK & CD

Our Price: $31.00

#B327

Recipes, Music, and Talk Story

Sam Choy - The Makaha Sons - 6-1/2" x 9" - color photos - 164 pages - Softcover - CD

Sam Choy brings you his favorite luau recipes and The Makaha Sons prodvide a specially mixed CD of their favorite and most requested luau songs. The "Talk Story" section includes personal luau experiences from Sam and The Makaha Sons, history of the luau, how to do a traditional or "Tiki Time" luau, roasting a pig, planning, etc. "Recipe" section includes dozens of easy to follow recipes for traditional and mainland recipes for pork, chicken, beef, seafood, sides, sauces, pupus, desserts, and drinks: chicken laulau, poi, kalua pig or turkey, long rice, haupia, papaya salad, coconut taro, pineapple chutney, tequila grilled shrimp, banana poi, guava colada, and many more.
Makaha Sons Audio CD includes: Round in Waikiki / Ta-Ha-Ua-La, Lahaina Luna, Hopoe, Pidgin English Hula, Blue Hawaii, U'i, Keep Your Eyes On The Hands, Wahine Hele La, He Nani Mokihana, Kuhihewa, Ke Kali Nei Au / Hawaiian Wedding Song, and Hu'i E

HAWAIIAN COOKBOOK

Our Price: $9.00

#B047

R. Schindler - 5" x 8" - 272 pages - black & white illustrations - Softcover

Nearly 300 fool-proof island recipes are clearly presented with many helpful suggestions for shortcuts, preparing ahead, variations, and mainland substitutions. All recipes are designed for easily obtainable ingredients and include appetizers, soups, salads, vegetables, fish, desserts, and more. Also there are tips on how to have an authentic luau.

OHANA STYLE COOKBOOK

Our Price: $12.00

#B257

Various Hawaiian Chefs - 6" x 8-1/2" - 168 pages - color illustrations - Softcover

A remarkable collection of island recipes from well-known Hawaiian chefs. Pupus and Dips (poke, shrimp dip), Soups Salads and Dressings (Tahitian crab soup, won bok salad, lehua salad), Pasta and Vegetables (clam linguine), Main Dishes (fish/spinach bake, huli huli chicken, lau lau), Vegetarian Dishes and Breads (banana bread), and Desserts (congo bars, haupia), etc

HAWAIIAN HOME COOKIN' BOOK

Our Price: $11.00

#B362

Mama Annie - 9" x 6" - black & whhite illustrations - 111 pages - Softcover

An introduction to the Islands with local favorite recipes for breakfast, appetizers, soups, salads, fish, meat, luaus, and desserts including poke, loco-moco, lomi-lomi salmon, spam breakfast fritters, macadamia nut pancakes, coconut squid, laulau, pineapple bon-bons, pineapple macadamia nut bread, malasadas, and many more. The book is peppered throughout with local lore and history, and includes short versions of several Hawaiian legends.

HAWAIIAN BY REQUEST COOKBOOK

Our Price: $16.00

#B434

Betty Shimabukuro - 9" x 6" - color illustrations - 171 pages - Softcover

Author and Honolulu Star Bulletin columnist Betty Shimabukuro has been tracking down recipes for the Star Bulletin’s "By Request" column since 1998. Possibly the one thing that has been requested more than any particular recipe is a cookbook. Now, readers finally have the answer to that request in By Request: The Search for Hawaii’s Greatest Recipes.

This cookbook is filled with the most popular, memorable and favorite recipes uncovered by the column and includes recipes for a variety of dishes from robust main dishes to essential sides and luscious desserts and treats of all kinds. There is a special section dedicated to the legendary Top Five recipes of all time and another section of recipes from local celebrity chefs.

TROPICAL RUM DRINKS & CUISINE BOOK

Our Price: $16.00

#B287

Don the Beachcomber - 6-1/2" x 9" - 112 pages - color / black & white photos - Softcover

Donn Beach's Don the Beachcomber Polynesian-themed restaurants and bars were all the rage during the 1930s, 40s, & 50s. His secret cocktail mixtures are revealed here for the first time including the original Mai Tai, Zombie, Vicious Virgin, Beachcomber's Gold. etc., plus tropical recipes for appetizers, salads, shrimp, meats, and an original Party Guide.

TIKI DRINKS BOOK - SALE

Our Price: $13.00
Sale Price: $10.00

#B271

Adam Rocke - 6" x 7-1/2'" - 64 pages - color illustrations - Hardcover

A cool compilation of 70 classic and novel concoctions to turn any party into a luau. Simple tips on setting up a tiki bar including utensils, types of glasses, measurements, garnishes, and liquors. Filled with lots of hip illustrations by tiki artist Shag. Chi-chi, Coconut Kiss, Horny Monkey, Pina Colada, Sex on the Beach, Suffering Bastard, Stinger, etc.