Archive for May, 2012
My tiki bar has gone for months with only one stool– my solo, treasured Witco. Ive been hunting for 4-6 more for almost a year now, to no avail. Just last week i started watching new bamboo stool- which are expensive, made by slave labor surely, and have no soul. Then…… i found exactly what ive been looking for– a set of 4 old Witco’s. On top of that, the guy (a great dude from PA) wanted to barter for Apple stuff. My kinda guy….. I’m stoked.
By the way, Witco was founded by Ron Hovde and Bill Westenhaver, and became popular in the 1960′s. Initially, the company started out as Western International Trading Company, importing South Pacific style home furnishing items, like Capishell Lamps (ive got one of those in this deal as well, shown below.) Over time, the founders artistic bugs flourished and they began chainsaw carving rough cedar into furniture and artwork. His is what Witco became famous for, and there tiki setups were seen in the homes of people like Hugh Hefner and Elvis….
-scott noteboom
May 31st, 2012
I must miss LA or something today, as i find myself thinking of the Tiki Ti in Hollywood– and longing for a drink. You see, the Tiki Ti appeals to me for several reasons: it’s a historical LA tiki landmark, still run by the original family, and it’s right around the corner from where my wife and i lived when we first met. While San Jose is clearly home in my heart at this point, i’ll always dig my Hollywood memories.
Along the lines of the Tiki Ti, one of their most well known drinks was created by mistake– and it’s thus named “Ray’s Mistake.” Through combination of missing the Tiki Ti, and loving the Ray’s Mistake, i made a run at trying one of the recipes the folks at Tiki Central had posted in trying to reverse engineer the drink. Here it goes:
1 oz Passion Fruit Syrup
1 oz White Rum
1 oz Gin
1/4 oz Grenadine
3 Drops of Vanilla Extract
3 Drops of Almond Extract
1 oz Lime Juice
1/2 oz Simple Syrup
2 oz Club Soda
And a Float of Dark Rum
Shake all ingredients together (except Dark rum) with crushed ice and pour unrestrained into glass… add Dark Rum float.
Pretty tasty…
-scott noteboom
May 31st, 2012
this is a test of the blog tie to facebook system.
May 13th, 2012
