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提奇鸡尾酒 Tiki

2009-03-23 娱乐英语 来源:互联网 作者:
Tiki culture is experiencing a resurgence in popularity with Gen Xers who missed it the first time around in the 1950s and 1960s, and with retro buffs interested in preserving cultural trends. The word tiki refers to the carved wooden heads created in Polynesia, which became emblematic of the Polynesian pop movement.
The Tiki phenomenon can be traced back to the early 1930s, beginning with the post-prohibition opening of a tropical-themed eatery by Donn Beach , aka Don the Beachcomber. In addition to tropical Asian cuisine and a big helping of colorful Polynesian culture, he served up rum-based umbrella drinks, in large part because of the cheaper availability of rum at the time, compared with other spirits.
Around the same time, Victor Bergeron opened his first Polynesian-style restaurant in California . The exotic food and tropical cocktails were quickly popular, and resulted in a chain of restaurants, which later (along with their proprietor) became known as Trader Vic. (History is a little blurred as to which of the entrepreneurs first created the Mai Tai cocktail, but accounts seem to lean on the side of Don the Beachcomber.)
A few years later, soldiers began returning home from World War II with stories of exotic paradises in far-off lands. Those romanticized recollections, coupled with the release of the American movie outh Pacific?triggered an explosion in Polynesian pop culture that continued through the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, eclipsed only by the birth of disco culture.

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