Fassionola: The Torrid Story of Cocktails’ Most Mysterious Ingredient Culinary History 90 Years of Classic San

90 Years of Classic San Diego Tiki

California

December 2023 in fixed-layout ePUB and PDF formats (ISBN: 978-1-7328164-5-9)

Full-color

and music to enthusiastic mainland audiences

Fassionola: The Torrid Story of Cocktails’ Most Mysterious Ingredient Culinary History 90 Years of Classic SanDeveloped by a German immigrant druggist and his wife in Cardiff by the Sea, California a passionfruit product originally intended for soda fountains and ice cream parlors. After the end of Prohibition, Don the Beachcomber used it in many of his original tropical cocktails. Thirty years and several scandals later, it was rebranded Fassionola. Along its journey, it touched the lives of music publishers, actors, dancers, soft porn directors, suspected