In our September issue we asked local expert Melanie Kosaka where the dining hot spots were. Melanie is the owner of First Daughter Mediaworks, creator of James Beard Award–winning TV series The Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter, Hawaiʻi Cooks with Roy Yamaguchi and New American Cuisine as well as the websites shareyourtable.com and GetHealthyNowHawaii.com....
Set a date and invite your friends over! It doesn’t matter if they’re regular wine drinkers or not. If they like wine, they will love this experience. On the day of or the day before: Buy the food to go with the wine....
Full disclosure: I am, in some ways, the ultimate consumer. I undoubtedly inherited this trait from my father, who as the typical rags-to-riches immigrant success story has been buying two of everything ever since he could afford to. I was quite possibly one of the first Ebay shoppers, and in 2005 I combined my...
It was only eleven when I started writing this post and I already had hunger pains. There isn’t an excuse–I indulged in a large coffee and breakfast was a hearty helping of yogurt and granola, and I even skipped my daily a.m. swim–but there’s something about the excitement of lunchtime, where the body gets...
Who doesn’t love food and wine, however, the allure of a four-day event revolving around just food and just wine is an easy “pass” for me. Perhaps it’s the fact that at 5’4,” and am lost in a large group, or I don’t watch the food network enough to know who is a ‘god’...
