by Wanda | Jul 22, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
The highest accolade one food writer can offer another is “I wish I had written that.” So it was that Wednesday, sitting over my butter- and cream cheese-slathered bialy at This is It Deli on Cooke Street, I began mumbling curses when I saw in the Star-Advertiser...
by Wanda | Jul 15, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Grandma’s spinning. What unthinkable thing did I do? I paid for guavas. One whole American dollar. Shed’ be shocked. I don’t think she ever paid for a guava, a papaya, a mango, a mountain apple or a waiawi in all her long life. If you wanted guavas...
by Wanda | Jul 14, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. And after several thousand words, it was a series of pictures that conveyed the central message of master chef Ferdinand Metz’s keynote address, “Hospitality: The Lost Art of Foodservice,” Wednesday to...
by Wanda | Jul 11, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Tomorrow: Mango salsa. Dinner was a local leftover bonanza the other night: laulau that our neighbor made, take-home from a dim sum lunch earlier in the day, the mac-and-potato salad I made too much of last weekend. Whew! On the Fourth of July, we were sitting in the...
