All right, the winter holidays – every one of ‘em – is right here and now, and I sure wish you Happy Holidays!

The other day while I was in downtown Boston, a good friend of mine, Andrea, mentioned that she and her family were going to have a luau Christmas this year. Terrific! It turns out Andrea will be in charge of the drinks and was thinking about making mai tais. Great! “Only, I’m quite sure I know how to make them,” she said. No problem, I told her. I have a recipe – all in pictures – at my site. I drilled up the site on my phone to show her right then and there and realized that what I’d had available wasn’t quite as clear as wanted it to be. Again, no problem. That’s one of the beauties of working digitally.

I got home, reshot and rewrote the recipe, and now have it here good to go.

Now, I will say that the two really cool things about this drink for me are that it uses one of my favorite spirits – rum – and was invented in 1944 by innovative drink-making legend Vic “Trader Vic” Bergeron (pictured below). The drink’s name, Mai Tai, means “out of this world” in Tahitian. Regarding the invention of the drink, Trader Vic is known for having said, “Anyone who says I didn’t create the Mai Tai is a dirty rotten stinker!” Terrific spirit that you can even taste by clicking any picture on this page for a complete, very easy to follow step-by-step picture book recipe.