Not just the famous recipes for Trader Vic drinks such as The Scorpion, The Suffering Bastard and The Mai Tai (which Vic himself created), but a look at the man who created the tiki movement which would sweep the country and reach its pinnacle in Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii". This book gets extra points for allowing Vic his own potty-mouthed say with quotes such as, "I frankly don't give one good gaddamn whether the fork is on the left side of the plate or underneath it..." ( )