Our Books
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Beach Bum Berry's Grog Log
Our first Bum book, The Grog Log is the standard by which all other tropical drink recipe books are judged. A 96 page spiral-bound tome perfect for sitting on your home bar.
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Beach Bum Berry's Intoxica
The follow-up book to the Grog Log, Intoxica is another 96 pages of recipes and historical information.
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Taboo Table
Beachbum Berry uncovers the forgotten secret food recipes from Polynesian restaurants of days gone by. Beachbum Berry's Taboo Table is a cookbook done in a style similar to the author's two drink recipe books, Beachbum Berry's Grog Log and Beachbum Berry's Intoxica. Taboo Table features famous "lost" and exotic recipes (most ironically created in the USA) for appetizers, entrees and desserts. There is also a fascinating and informative history of tiki cuisine from the first Polynesian settlers to the last remaining Polynesian restaurants. Vintage menu art as well as new, tiki-inspired artwork dot every page, making Taboo Table a must-have for people looking for a nostalgic trip into a lost part of exotica.
While Currently out of print, Taboo Table is scheduled to be reprinted in late January 2010
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Beach Bum Berry's Sippin' Safari
In this all new book, Berry not only offers up tantilizing 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, the 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...; and Duke Kamanamoku, whose manager turned him from Olympic champion into reluctant restaurateur.
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Beach Bum Berry Remixed
The global Tiki Drink revival is in full swing. But without Beachbum Berry's Grog Log and Intoxica!, there'd be nothing to drink. These two groundbreaking books revealed the top-secret, never-before-published, "lost" exotic drink recipes from Tiki's original midcentury heyday. Author Jeff Berry has unearthed a lot more recipes since his first two books, and picked up a lot more drink lore too. He's spilling it all in Beachbum Berry Remixed, a completely revised and updated anthology of the Grog Log and Intoxica!, featuring 40 newly discovered, previously unpublished vintage Tiki drink recipes from the 1930s-1960s, 38 of the best new recipes from today's Tiki revival, gathered especially for Remixed from the world's top mixologists and cocktail writers, expanded drink history and lore, incorporating newly discovered information about the origins of the Mai Tai, Zombie, Suffering bastard, and other legendary Tiki mysteries.
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Tiki Joe Mysterues
as Vegas, 1959. WWII veteran Joe Halliday is enjoying the good life - running Tiki Joe's Restaurant, courting a beautiful girl, and making time with stead-fast friends - that is, until the local mob moves in with demands for protection money. When the police are unable to help, Joe calls in a few old army friends, and together they decide to pay the mob off... in lead! Tiki Joe is an Ocean's Eleven-style mystery set in Las Vegas - part murder mystery, part hard-boiled thriller by Mark Murphy.
It's an impressive work, not just because of Murphy's ability to resurrect a style, a culture, and a time (or as it is represented in the entertainment of the era), but because he also makes it enthusiastically enjoyable. If you appreciate and enjoy watching post-war movies, from Alfred Hitchcock to Russ Meyer, then Tiki Joe is a welcoming read. --Graig Kent, Rack Raids
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Tiki Art Now vol 3
Tiki Art Now Volume 3 is the third installment of Otto von Stroheim's chronicle of contemporary Tiki art. Presented in full color are over 50 pieces of art by 18 of the top Tiki artists from around the world including Shag, Tim Biskup, Crazy Al Evans, veteran Wayne Coombs a.k.a. Mai Tiki and more. Also included is a survey of vintage velvet paintings by the master - Tyree. Dating from the late 1940s and early 1950s, this is a rare glimpse into the history of a precursor of modern Tiki art. Includes an introduction by pop culturist Lary Reid.