Announcing the winners of the Bento Box Contest... Drum roll please...and the 1st Place winner is YULYAN PARWATI! The award for Honorable Mention goes to Yuli Saputra! Read the rest of this entry »

Do you have a favorite family recipe that could become famous? Now's your chance to submit a recipe that could be featured in an upcoming cookbook!  Each finalist will win a free book!  Top 20 wil [...]
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Join Watermark Publishing at our Downtown Holiday Book Fair with special guests:

• Chef Alan Wong
• Arnold Hiura,
  award-winning author
• Chef Kevin Chong
  (Chef Mavro Restaurant)
• Chef Hiroshi Fukui
  (Hiroshi Eurasian Tapas)
• Chef Eric Leterc
  (The Pacific Club)

This will be the first book signing for Chef Alan Wong’s new book, The Blue Tomato. The Blue Tomato will not be available in bookstores before the holidays, and is available exclusively through Alan Wong’s Restaurants and Watermark Publishing.

Chef Alan will sign books from 11:30AM - 1:30PM. He will be joined by Arnold Hiura, author of the best-selling, award-winning Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands, and some of the chefs featured in The Hawaii Farmers Market Cookbook-Volume 2: The Chefs’ Guide to Fresh Island Foods, which features recipes by Chef Alan and 17 more of Hawai’i’s top chefs.

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by Tylun Pang Saturday, November 20 11 am- 1 pm: Costco Maui Sunday, November 28 12 pm: Borders Maui Marketplace Sunday, December 5 11 am: Costco Iwilei Saturday, December 11 12 pm: Costco Maui Sunday, December [...]
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By Request 2 by Betty Shimabukuro Hawai‘i's Holiday Cookbook by Muriel Miura & Betty Shimabukuro Join Betty and Muriel as the sign their newest cookbooks! Read the rest of this entry »

by Audrey Wilson Saturday, November 6 2 pm: Basically Books Saturday, November 13 11 am- 1pm: Hilo Yacht Club Saturday, December 12 12 pm: Borders Kona Saturday, December 18 12 pm: Costco Kona Saturday, D [...]
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by Tylun Pang The third title in the Likes to Eat series, focusing on the dishes Maui chef Tylun Pang considers to epitomize Maui’s culinary history and present. The question is always asked when hosting guest [...]
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Just try talking about Hawai‘i’s cultural history without talking about food. No can. We love eating and talk story about local food. On Saturday Nov. 6, Hawaii’s Plantation Village in Waipahu will celebrate both taste and talk with Arnold Hiura, author of Kau Kau — Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands.

The free reading/discussion/eating event, 10 a.m. to noon, will get under way with a quick historical overview of kau kau — our all-purpose pidgin word for food. The book’s timeline starts with Hawaiians then continues with whalers and sailors, plantation immigration, World War II and post-war Hawai‘i, the “Hawaiian Renaissance” movement and wraps up with the contemporary food scene.

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Island Favorites for Every Celebration From New Year to Christmas by Muriel Miura and Betty Shimabukuro Here in Hawai‘i, we love parties. Christmas, New Year’s, Fourth of July, Labor Day—all are reasons [...]
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Favorite Island Recipes from Chefs, Restaurants, and Community Members by Audrey Wilson The Big Island is unique, especially when it comes to food: We take it very seriously. The Island’s varying landsc [...]
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