Daiquiri President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy rum was easily obtainable because the policy opened up trade and travel relations with Latin America, Cuba and the Caribbean. The Good Neighbor policy, also known as the Pan-American program, helped make Latin America fashionable. Consequently, rum-based drinks (once frowned upon as being the choice of sailors and down-and-outs), also became fashionable, and the daiquiri saw a tremendous rise in popularity in the US. The basic recipe for a daiquiri is also similar to the grog British sailors drank aboard ship from the 1740s as a means of preventing scurvy. By 1795 the
Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights "Ultra-Lounge" were focused on the major labels, while his idea was to develop them from the more independent music scene of the genre. Shipley's interest in creating this compilation was after discovering the website The Exotica Project, where he noted that "Not everything on there is good, but it manages to capture a moment and show there's a moment underneath the movement." Shipley compiled nearly 700 songs for the compilation and narrowed down the choices based on personal taste and licensing availability. The compilation is split into three discs: "Daiquiri Dirges", "Rhum Rhapsodies" and "Mai Tai Mambos". The first section