🍴 Food May 6, 2026 · Shannon Mustipher

Mai Tai

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Mai Tai
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Photo: Belle Morizio • Food Styling: Kat Craddock
In its heyday, the mai tai was the “it” drink. Invented by Victor “Trader Vic” Bergeron in the 1940s, the cocktail inspired a slew of imitators and was such a hot ticket that disputes arose around who invented it. The debate was so heated that Trader Vic not only filed a lawsuit against a rival bar to prove he was the inventor, but he also took out a full page ad in The New York Times attesting to this. What would inspire such an uproar?  We

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