When Holoholo General Store founder Jill Nordby discovered that 85 percent of our food is imported, she was shocked. After being a client of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) business on Maui, she moved to Oahu to begin her own.
A newborn portal to the wonderful world of olive oil is hoping to thrive next to the Paul Brown Salon in the small-business friendly Ward Center complex. Island Olive Oil Company is an extensive nucleus of foodie fun, where anyone with any level of gastronomic knowledge can saunter in, grab a few bites of crusty bread and dip oils and balsamic vinegars to their heart’s content.
The average American’s pizza palate has been numbed by chain-restaurant pies topped with (snore) lots of cheese (with extra cheese, please) and messy meats. On the flip side, thereʻs zpizza, which prioritizes organic and local ingredients, crafting a fresh, tasty product that breaks the mold–or the pizza pan, if you will.
In a fast-paced world of cookie-cutter chain restaurants with production-line food, it is comforting to go to a place once in a while where you can sit down and chat with the guy behind the bar as he cooks your food. In our Nov.
Can’t face making the whole feast this year? Below are some ideas.
Persimmon. Does the name give your mouth a pucker feel?
Growing closer to the land requires more than just sentiment and far-away support–it demands the spread of knowledge. And that’s exactly what the North Shore Organic Farm Film Series, sponsored by Hawaii SEED and Label It Hawaii, is aimed toward.
By definition, the Chicago deep dish pizza is too big, with too much crust, cheese and sauce. A lot of people like it tht way.
True Community Support Agriculture is a system in which consumers invest in a farm, buying either a non-working or working (farm labor required) share and receiving their return on investment in the form of food. That’s rare here.
The flyer just appeared on my desk: “Bitches With Kitchens,” it said, and invited the reader to ”stand up and fight for our rights as home-based business owners and mamapreneurs” and named a date and place for a hearing. I was bummed because I had missed the date, wondered what the issue was that was threatening home-based cooking, In other words, I bought the whole thing at face value.
If the KCC Farm Bureau Farmers Market is a loud BBBBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, the Wednesday evening Farm Bureau Farmers Market on the lawn in front of the Blaisdell Concert Hall is a hushed hmmmmmm. You’ll see some familiar vendors — ‘Nalo Farms, Akamai Oat Cakes, Pacific Kool, Otsuji Farm (not just produce but oh, those sushi sliders!), Pig and the Lady, Zaratez tacos, Soul, and so on — and some with which you are perhaps not so familiar.
Challah (ha-LA; roll the “h” back in you throat so it comes out as though you’re clearing your throat) is Sabbath bread, served at the Friday night meal commanded of observant Jews to open their day of rest each week. But in New York and other cities with large Jewish populations, it’s also a favorite sandwich bread and many bakeries make challah rolls stuffed with meats or other ingredients.
Irony: As a consulting nutritionist to individuals, schools and businesses, Deanna Moncrief knew it was important to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. But she didn’t like her own salads.
When Alan Wong’s pastry chef Michelle Kerr was a little girl, her grandma used to make a shave ice treat: vanilla ice cream and a handful of homemade mochi balls topped with a mound of flavored shave ice. She never forgot the pleasures of that sweet-chewy-icy confection.
For anyone spending a day in Waikiki, the picture-perfect itinerary looks similar to the formula of beach, shop and eat. After you’ve spent the day catching waves at Walls or tanning along the shore, the quest to find some delicious grub can be pretty difficult, considering the hundreds of food options along the strip.
We think Honolulu Burger Company is the best burger restaurant in town. Here’s why: 1.
Tangerines are showing up at farmers’ markets, reminding us of the days before markets were flooded with imported clementines, aka “cuties,” from Spain or Portugal. A form of mandarin orange, tangerines, like other citrus fruit, grow well in Hawaii.
Honey bears may all come from the same mold, but when filled with local raw Hawaii honey, what sweet diversity they contain. We tasted a selection from three small apiaries: These richly textured nectars turn plain tea to liquid silk, transform the daily toast and are the best excuse you’ll ever have to make scones from scratch.
When I was a kid, nothing would make me happier than a trip to the local ice cream shop. Now, nothing makes me happier than having a double soy caramel latte all to myself.
For a time. when I was new to Honolulu and trying to make ends meet without panicking over grocery sticker shock, I worked as local personal assistant to Dr.
Why, assuming it’s not an agricultural college, should a school have a garden? Especially an elementary school, where young people have enough to do just taking in the the Rs without adding radishes and rutabega?
It’s fair to say that, after experiencing Whole Foods Kahala and Kahului, we thought we knew what to expect from a Whole Foods store. But it’s probably equally fair to say that the Kailua store surprised us all by adding something unexpected of such an oh-so-PC place: A bar in the store.
Pretend you haven’t been to Haleiwa in say, a year. Am I reaching?
For two generations of travelers to Oahu, the must-take omiyage has been Leonard’s malasadas: deep-fried, sugar-dusted sweet dough. Step off a plane on the neighbor islands without a grease-stained box and your relatives’ shoulders slump disappointedly.
If you’ve never attended a “real lu’au”–not a tourist attraction–or if it’s been too long since the last one, scroll on over to Aug. 4 on your smart phone calendar and plan for a pleasant drive, a day of kanikapila with several hundred new friends and a lavish feast.
For as long as we can remember, Chinatown has been notorious for drugs, homelessness and filthy streets. Some claim nothing has changed–and that it never will.
Bicyclists have long been overlooked by four-wheel riders on Honolulu’s congested streets. In the gleaming, armored pecking order of the road, cyclists are too often dismissed as lane hogs, hand-signaling nuisances and unfortunates who can’t afford cars.
The fate of some 1,525 acres of land at Hoopili in ‘Ewa may have been decided last Wednesday in Hawaii’s First Circuit Court. The decision might have gone differently, but the appellant attorneys’ strategy seemed to collapse as Judge Rhonda Nishimura picked it apart based on technical errors.
Last Thursday, May 9, the Caldwell administration revealed its action plan for solving Honolulu’s homeless problem. But at the City Council’s budget meeting the same day, Budget chair Ann Kobayashi wanted to know where the money for “Housing First” (see Cover Story, pg.
The Mayor Wright Housing project has been slated for major redevelopment by the Hawaii State Housing Authority (HSHA); requests for qualifications will be going out to developers in three to six months. Nonprofit group Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE) wants to make sure the project’s tenants have a say in the redevelopment process, which could include major renovations or a total rebuild.
The Honolulu City Council held a special Committee on Transportation meeting on Tuesday, May 7, to go over its Complete Streets initiative with input from the department directors of Design and Construction (DDC), Planning and Permitting (DPP) and Transportation Services (DTS). At prior meetings, including the Moiliili workshop, community members pressed the idea of combining Complete Streets with Caldwell’s repaving projects, which Dan Burden of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute and some councilmembers have said makes sense.
Not much to agree with my friend Doc Berry (“Limits of Growth,” April 17). None of the scenarios he posits will ever materialize.
In your Diary of May 8 (“End of the 27th)” you reported on SB 1214, passed by the Legislature. In their nimble way, the Legislature tacked the wheel boot prohibition on a bill that was intended to abolish the Commission on Transportation.
On Friday, May 3, at 3:45 p.m., I was driving town bound through the Wilson tunnel on the Likelike. I was parallel to another car, and there were several other cars following closely behind me.
Congratulations Honolulu Weekly on the recent Pai award for investigative reporting (“Boss GMO,” Jan. 4, 2012).
When the biofuel guys say that costs are “confidential” (“Big-foot Biofuel,” May 8), I reply that since I am the one who is going to end up paying the cost, I have a right to know. Frankly, when everybody tries to hide the costs, I smell rat …
The Foster Botanical Garden never ceases to inspire for an urban setting it is like a step back in time (“See the Flora,” May 8). If Koko Crater Botanical Garden contains the world’s largest plumeria collection as suggested, it may be thanks in part to the Prussian born Dr.
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