Riley Allen, who served as editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from 1912 to 1960, was one of the organizers of the 1941 awards dinner featured here on Sunday. My dad’s dementia may have wiped out a lot of things and left him wondering where he is, but he recognized Allen immediately when I showed him [...]
Here’s another small moment in Hawaii culinary history, found among the papers and photographs belonging to my father, John Lind. It was taken at a meeting of the Geneva Club in Honolulu, probably in the immediate post-WWII years prior to 1950. On the far right, serving a plate of pasta, is Donn Beach, made famous [...]
Another excerpt from my father’s rambling description of his life and times. John Lind arrived in Hawaii in 1939 and worked in the hotel and restaurant supply business until his retirement at the end of 1998, after more than 60 years in the business. War, it seems, was good business as the old adage, “an [...]
