True confessions and the final cut

True confessions. I’ve never been to Punahou Carnival. And yet again, this year, I’m not going (got a cooking class coming up and story deadlines). But today, I’m making Punahou Caramel Cuts, like penuche candy, only in cooking form. I love penuche...

Take a bao now

BREAKING NEWS: Double click on thumbnails below to see a picture gallery and read about this morning’s Mangoes at the Moana event: [Show as slideshow] Tomorrow: Mangoes at YOUR house. ON TO CHINATOWN: In the past year or so, my trips to Chinatown have been quick...

Permission to eat cupcakes, please!

Tomorrow: If I ran a restaurant . . . Finally got to drop by the new cupcake shop opened by my friends Kawehi Haug and Nick Gervais, Let Them Eat Cupcakes, at 35 S. Beretania in the old Mix Cafe location (park in the inexpensive underground city lot off Beretania...

Digging into the strata

Tomorrow: The plague of the plastic containers. I’m not just a foodie, I’m a cookie (one who just loves cooking). And for a cookie, can there be a greater compliment than someone chasing you down for a recipe? Cooking for volunteers at the Friends of the...