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Jeff Beachbum Berry
Jeff Beachbum Berry
Jeff Beachbum Berry
Jeff "Beachbum" Berry (born c. 1958) is an American restaurant owner, author, and historian of Tiki Culture particularly the drinks associated with the tiki theme. In addition to researching and reconstructing lost recipes, he has invented and published his own cocktail recipes.
Matt Pietrek
Jeff Beachbum Berry
Jeff Beachbum Berry
Matt Pietrek is an American spirits and cocktail writer and historian who writes both the Rum Wonk and Cocktail Wonk web sites as well as several books on these topics. Pietrek and his wife, Carrie Smith, publish books via their Wonk Press business.
Wayne Curtis
Jeff Beachbum Berry
Wayne Curtis
Wayne Curtis is the author of “And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails,” and “The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1909 Walk from New York to San Francisco and Why It Matters Today.” He was a contributing editor at The Atlantic, and has freelanced for many publications, including American Scholar, New York Ti
Wayne Curtis is the author of “And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails,” and “The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1909 Walk from New York to San Francisco and Why It Matters Today.” He was a contributing editor at The Atlantic, and has freelanced for many publications, including American Scholar, New York Times, Wall St. Journal, American Archeology, The Daily Beast, Preservation, and The Smart Set. He writes frequently about travel, archeology, history, cocktails and spirits, and is currently a columnist for Garden & Gun and Imbibe, He lives in New Orleans except during the yellow fever, months when he retreats to Maine.