And the cookbook most likely to sit unsold is…

At the Friends of the Library Book Sale, where I’ve been helping with food for the hard-working volunteers, I made a careful reconnaissance of the cookbook area before we opened on Friday, and then another today. I had two objectives: To see if anybody bought...

Mangoes at … your house

Mangoes have long been a companion to coconut and curry powder in classic kama’aina-style chicken or shrimp curry. Still, Kent Thompson’s first-place winning entry in the baked goods division of the Mangoes at the Moana Recipe Contest yesterday (July 9) carried the...

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...

A mango a day…

More like dozens of mangoes a day Saturday at the Mangoes at the Moana event at the Sheraton Moana Resort & Spa, a Westin property. Mango pies, mango tarts, mango crunch, mango cake, mango lumpia, mango rice, mango bread, mango manju, chicken stuffed with mango,...