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The Rise and Fall of Tiki Cuisine |
nichols
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Joined: Jul 03, 2003
Posts: 43 |  Posted: 2012-04-10 11:37 am Permalink
Charles Perry on Tiki Cuisine
The Rise and Fall of Tiki
When: Saturday, April 21st, 2012 at 2:00 PM
What: Free Lecture at Pacific Palisades Library
Where: 861 Alma Real Drive, Pacific Palisades
Who: The public is invited to this event.
In the 1930s, two California restaurateurs created the Polynesian restaurant phenomenon that would sweep the country in the 1950s. Tiki restaurants, remembered fondly (and maybe a little ruefully), were over-the-top intoxicating environments, smelling of tropical fruits and flowers, their ceilings hung with puffer-fish lamps and outrigger canoes. You ate luscious sweet-and-sour dishes while being entertained by graceful hula dancing and sweet, dreamlike Hawaiian music. It was overwhelming – lyrical, jovial, romantic and sensuous, though certainly naive and mannered.
And yet the phenomenon collapsed practically overnight in the 1970s. Charles Perry tells the story of the rise and fall of Tiki. Mr. Perry has written for the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, and other publications, as well as translated cookbooks from medieval Baghdad, Central Asia, and other cultures.
http://chscsite.org/charles-perry-on-tiki-cuisine/
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JOHN-O
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Joined: May 16, 2008
Posts: 2642
From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2012-04-10 11:59 am Permalink
A Tiki lecture on the Westside ?? !!
Scheduled on the same day as Mojave Oasis and Hukilau ?? Hmmm....
I will be sure to sit in the front row with my "Book of Tiki" in hand, fully armed with a discerning and questioning Tiki attitude. 
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JOHN-O
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Posts: 2642
From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2012-04-10 12:03 pm Permalink
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JOHN-O
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Posts: 2642
From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2012-04-10 12:06 pm Permalink
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jan/17/food/fo-13069
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Capt. R.H. Falernum
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Joined: Mar 05, 2009
Posts: 247
From: Mar Vista (Los Angeles), CA
| Posted: 2012-04-10 12:33 pm Permalink
I was signing on just to post about this very event.
Glad that others are interested.
I'm planning to attend. Anyone else?
Maybe we can carpool John-O? I'll drive! 
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SoccerTiki
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Joined: Feb 24, 2005
Posts: 1807
From: TheSoccerTikiGrotto, Island of LongBeach
| Posted: 2012-04-10 1:24 pm Permalink
Sounds like an interesting event! And FREE! Hmmm...Would that be Don the Beachcomber and Trader Vic's???
If the weather is good, it'll be a beautiful drive!
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Atomic Tiki Punk
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Joined: Jul 19, 2009
Posts: 5356
From: Costa Misery
| Posted: 2012-04-10 2:07 pm Permalink
I may sit this one out, John-O can be my proxy as he is more the diplomat
and knows the subject well.
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Professor G
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Joined: Sep 03, 2011
Posts: 327
From: the Tiki Wastelands
| Posted: 2012-04-10 7:39 pm Permalink
If someone makes it to this, please see if transcripts are available. The topic interests me strangely. For the record, Tiki Cuisine will rise again.
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the TikiTraveler
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Sep 19, 2011
Posts: 31 | Posted: 2012-04-13 3:05 pm Permalink
Aloha to all !! it's been awhile..traveling to Tahiti,Hawaii and back (for a couple of months ) so my posts have been speratic...but anyway..looks like International Tiki Marketplace has been sucessful..Mahalo Chris (soccer tiki) But, look people YOU MUST attend this function (if possible) it will be enlightening. I grew up there (in the 'sades') and the Library will be cool('cuz of all the books on tiki,poly-pop and such)I've been talking to "one of the fathers of tiki" to get him to drop by. Wish me luck. Mahalo ,Charles Perry...don't forget the Rumaki.
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nui 'umi 'umi
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Joined: Feb 21, 2011
Posts: 852
From: La Mirada Atoll
| Posted: 2012-04-14 11:40 am Permalink
Thanks for posting Nic. Save me a seat John-0
Cheers
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WooHooWahine
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Joined: Mar 04, 2005
Posts: 3026
From: Mission (Impossible) Viejo, Ca
| Posted: 2012-04-14 3:58 pm Permalink
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On 2012-04-14 11:40, nui 'umi 'umi wrote:
Thanks for posting Nic. Save me a seat John-0
Cheers
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WooHoo! We will be there too
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HB TIKI
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Dec 12, 2008
Posts: 672 | Posted: 2012-04-14 4:13 pm Permalink
John O, Please save seats For HB Tiki and wife, what a great place to be on a Saturday afteroon with sun and the California coast. Also great excuse to stop for drinks at Purple Orchid, Don the Beachcomber, and Etc...
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tikiyaki
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Joined: May 18, 2004
Posts: 2690
From: The Exotic Port of REDONDO BEACH, CA
| Posted: 2012-04-14 6:23 pm Permalink
What ? Mojave Oasis weekend!!! Ugh !
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JOHN-O
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Joined: May 16, 2008
Posts: 2642
From: Dogtown, USA
| Posted: 2012-04-14 7:08 pm Permalink
Both can be done. I will prove it !! (But I do have to send my clone to Hukilau).
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WooHooWahine
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Joined: Mar 04, 2005
Posts: 3026
From: Mission (Impossible) Viejo, Ca
| Posted: 2012-04-15 09:39 am Permalink
Cocktails & Early Dinner after the show???
The Galley Restaurant http://www.thegalleyrestaurant.net/
The Pearl Dragon http://www.thepearldragon.com/menus-wine-cocktails
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