According to bartenders of color actively decolonizing tiki
Photo: Jim Heimann Collection/Getty Images As author and editor Chloe Frechette details in her article “Does Anyone Really Know What Tiki Is?” the arrival of the tiki aesthetic and a sudden fascination with bright, tropical-leaning drinks in 1930s Los Angeles “was the antithesis of the spartan three-ingredients formulas — Manhattan, Martini, Old-Fashioned — that had defined the bar world’s status quo for the last half-century.” In other words, tiki was exciting.
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