When foodies make friends, their plates are full!

Tomorrow: An old-fashioned recipe travels well. I have a new friend. I’ve never met her. She used to call me about restaurants when I was at The Advertiser. Then, one day — I still don’t know where she got my cell phone number — she called me at home with another...

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First is best: That’s an order

Tomorrow: The gift of a foodie (and more) friend. I’m trying to follow my personal Best Practice when ordering in restaurants:  Order the first thing that appeals to you. No matter what. (Just be sure you've read the menu description carefully so there are no...

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Stale malassadas find a place on the dessert menu

Mangoes at the Moana is July 9; you can win good stuff in the recipe contest. See details under the Tips, etc. link above. Tomorrow: Learn the restaurant rule. It is an only-in-Hawai’i problem. And it has an only-in-Hawai’i solution. What do you do with leftover...

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Omedetu, Shirokiya! Congratulations!

Got a great mango recipe? Under Tips, Recipes, Ideas and Food Lore tab above, check out the information on the recipe contest at the Mangoes at the Moana event coming up July. 9 Tomorrow: A lucky-you-live-Hawai'i bread pudding. Wednesday: The restaurant rule. Been...

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Back behind the plate!

Tomorrow: Discovering a new food "neighborhood," Yataimura at Shirokiya. Coming up: A foodie friendship. An Island-only recipe for bread pudding. Fish soup that'll change your mind. Restaurant ordering: the one unbreakable rule. March? Was it really March the last...

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Bo-bo-botie!

Not that long ago — at least so it seems to aging me — any recipe that wasn't "haole" was "exotic." African was exotic. Indian was exotic. South American was exotic. Last week, when I was in Anchorage, I bought a cookbook that recalled those days: "Alaska's Cooking"...

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The not-so-silent supermarket scream

When I was a newspaper travel editor, I came to the conclusion that something about coming into possession of an eTicket caused people to forget the rules of civilized behavior, consumed by the conviction that "the rules can't possibly apply to me." "I don't need to...

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If at first . . .

In the whipped cream-light realm of reality TV, "Top Chef" is practically PBS. Conflicts rarely erupt into physical violence. The profanity is rather tame. And people say things like "feel the love" and mean it. (Okay, Carla may be the only one who says that.) But...

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What a waste!

When I was a food critic, friends would often speak envious words to my husband, telling him how lucky he was to be able to go to the latest restaurants on the newspaper's dime. He'd smile and agree. But he knows, as do others who have been my dining buddies over the...

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