It’s like this a lot of nights. We’re driving back from town, coming over the Pali. On weekdays, it’s often a little late, a few minutes after 6 p.m. I’m driving. Meda is thinking ahead to the big question–What’s for dinner? We have choices. We can make a stop in Kaneohe and shuffle around like [...]
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A slow Sunday morning. Time to share a couple of recent lunch stops. First, BC Burrito in Kaimuki. It’s on Waialae Avenue, between Koko Head Avenue and 12th Avenue. For those who are familiar with Kaimuki, it’s in that short block between Coffee Talk and Azteca. Last week was spring break at UH, so Meda [...]
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Students with classes in Saunders Hall, a 7-story classroom building on the UH Manoa campus, as well as faculty and staff with offices located upstairs in Saunders (Economic, Geography, Political Science, Public Administration, Public Policy Center, Social Science Research Institute, Sociology, and Women’s Studies) have been told all of the building’s elevators “are out of [...]
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The stories about Hawaii Regional Cuisine in Sunday’s Star-Advertiser reminded me of another batch of photos and documents found among my dad’s papers. Most of these date from the First Exhibit of Culinary Arts put on by the local chapter of the International Geneva Association in January 1959, although there’s one clipping from 1963. My [...]
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I don’t have pictures of the whole ingredients-to-table process on this, but I did stop for a photo when the lid came off the Dutch oven. I have a very simple recipe for beef shanks that is extremely forgiving, meaning that you can make your own substitutions for most ingredients. We found a package of [...]
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We got home Friday evening and, after feeding the cats, doing the insulin injections, putting away the groceries, and taking a deep breath, we almost opted for leftovers. Instead, we raided the freezer and came up with a few chicken thighs that should have been used a couple of months ago. While they were thawing [...]
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Former Hawaii reporter and radio personality, Karen Waygood, who traded sunny Kailua for the snows of Atlanta, sent along this video by her friend, Jim Gilson. For you photo folks, it’s shot with a Canon 7D. As you can tell, Jim’s pretty good with a camera and a video editor. Oh, the warning in the [...]
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Safeway is the target of a legal test case over whether supermarkets should be required to use their customer tracking systems to notify people who have purchased recalled items. The lawsuit was filed this week in a California court with backing from the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Safeway should have known that [...]
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