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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 17/09/2026

A tidy collection of Eddie Clarke* recipes from the 40s–60s are now added to Total Mixology. Two books in the bibliography and he even has his own keyword. *not to be confused with “Fast” Eddie Clarke of Mötorhead

Photo of Eddie Clarke from the cover of his 1954 book “Practical Bar Management”

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 15/09/2026

New recipe for September for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers is live!

For September, we are thrilled to present an exclusive 1930s original from Don the Beachcomber, recently-decoded by Beachbum Berry: Don’s Swizzle!

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 08/09/2026

Weekday lunch remains on life support in NYC, but Hamburger America is one of the great exceptions.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 13/08/2026

One of the most famous—and notoriously overpriced—liquor stores in New York State

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 08/08/2026

Apparently this ad appeared in The New Yorker, May 14, 1927.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 22/07/2026

Someone posted this vintage nonsense on Instagram for another purpose, but removed from the context of bad science, it kind of encapsulates the human condition. Even the “smartest” amongst us stumble often at reason and judgment, and what greater morons are there than those convinced they aren’t?

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 05/07/2026

Actually, it get’s worse. The Bebbo is literally the renamed Bee’s Knees from Boothby.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 05/07/2026

Yeah, the problem with books like this is, ok, where did the recipes actually come from? Probably not the “author”. I did locate this similar idea under a different name.

Honey Dew
Shake with ice:
1 oz dry gin
0.5 oz lemon juice
0.5 oz orange juice
0.5 oz honey
Strain into a cocktail glass.
Dexter Mason. Art of Drinking; What to Make with What You Have (What & How). New York: Farrar & Rinehart. 1930. p. 18.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 21/06/2026

Now that’s an inspirational class motto!

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 17/06/2026

Inspired by F. Monti, I’m on my third Rum Collins this week, and drifting toward the conclusion it’s the most underrated classic of them all. ¡Viva Cuba!

Rum Collins; Build in a bar glass filled with cracked ice: 2 bar spoons superfine sugar, juice of 1 lime, 1.5 oz light cuban-style rum. Fill with seltzer. From Sloppy Joe’s Cocktail Manual 1932-1933, p. 9.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 14/05/2026

New recipe for May now LIVE for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers!

Crop of vintage photo of brunette lady dancing in outlandish faux-polynesian costume

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 30/03/2026

So, has anyone actually tried making one of these? It seems closely related to the elaborate Mint Julep recipe in William’s 1891 book, but expanded with a lot of champagne—probably not literally “a pint” unless the bar glass was close to the size suggested in the drawing.)

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 16/03/2026

New recipe for March for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers! An exclusive, never-before-published 1937 recipe from Don the Beachcomber, Hollywood!

Scan of a vintage paper table talker from Don the Beachcomber promoting the Never Say Die drink, described as “Old Jamaica and Demerara Rums blended with wild flower honey and Acapulco Limes.”

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 09/03/2026

We are getting a new emoji that is a depressingly good fit for our times.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 05/03/2026

Our neighbors out back are experiencing a close encounter of the first kind in their great room. #oligarchy #nouveauriche #badtaste

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 21/02/2026

Amusing Bartholdi tangent I came across: hotel guests on the hotel’s proto-sightseeing bus. I suspect it was an electric vehicle, with batteries in that box between the wheels. Haven’t yet identified the church in the background.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 24/01/2026

All of this, including at least sixty (60) surveillance cameras, just to avoid employing a few attendants.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 18/01/2026

Splendid image from Carl Seutter’s 1909 book “der Mixologist”. In addition to illustrating some drinks per the era, note the delightful pousse-café layering annotation at right (sadly cropped in the scan)

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 26/12/2025

I’ve been inarticulately predicting this for months. We are getting played.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 10/12/2025

New recipe for December now live for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki app customers!

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 08/12/2025

Joe Santini’s grave, New Orleans Cemetery No. 3

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 08/11/2025

The grave of Pedro Chicote, Spain’s most famous bartender

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 07/11/2025

Our buddies in Campeche a couple years back

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 01/11/2025

Three Adonises and one Grasshopper at Del Diego, Madrid

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 23/10/2025

New timeline feature by Beachbum Berry on Planter’s Punch for all Total Tiki Online and Total Mixology subscribers!

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 11/10/2025

From the 1927 “El Arte de Hacer un Cocktail”, published in Cuba.

Fascist Cocktail.
Stir with ice:
10 drops apricot liqueur
2 oz American whiskey (i.e., straight rye or bourbon)
1 drop Angostura bitters
Strain into a cocktail glass.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 23/09/2025

Pro tip: these books will make great gifts, so buy a stack and hand them out like candy.

Stack of copies of The Comic Book History of the Cocktail

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 10/09/2025

New recipe for September now available for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers!

photocomposition of a green punch in a pilsner glass with straw and fruit garnishes over a rustic woven textile

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 27/08/2025

One of the various bar life illustrations from Petits & Grands Verres, 1927

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 21/08/2025

If you’re interested in rum, exotic drinks, or naval history, “The Rum Never Sets” is a book you’re going to want: it demystifies London Dock Rum and Navy Rum with original archival research. Detailed, but not TOO detailed. You will enjoy reading it, then keep the book on your shelf for reference.

Photo of the book “The Rum Never Sets” beside a bottle of Plantaray Mister Fogg Navy Rum

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 31/07/2025

My $36 Martini at the Waldorf.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 17/07/2025

It’s got those dreaded “dashes” in it. Do you still hew to ~1/4 oz lemon juice, 1 tsp simple syrup, to 1-1/2 oz each scotch and sloe?

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 04/07/2025

Edit from an ad in the 1869 Haney’s Steward & Barkeeper’s Manual

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 01/07/2025

Unsurprisingly, the full entry is a great read. [Aside: if a second edition of the Oxford comes to be, I hope it can get a full index!] Here’s the Loftus ad from McElhone’s book for everyone’s amusement.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 01/07/2025

Another example I have at hand is from this 1949 Albert Pick catalog. “Boston shaker” was surely a term in use, but they felt no obligation to use it. This was not a “set”, either, just the tin portion, which you could pair with various glasses they also sold.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 01/07/2025

This is from the 1953 UKBG book. They label the cobbler shaker as merely a “cocktail shaker”, the French shaker as a Boston shaker, and the Boston shaker as an “American Type Cocktail Shaker”.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 30/06/2025

Public service announcement from 1871 (Ricket and Thomas’ The Gentleman’s Table Guide)

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