Wanda Adams, author of "The Island Plate: 150 Years of Recipes and Food Lore from The Honolulu Advertiser" and "The Island Plate II," has been writing about food for 30 years.
Wanda Adams' My Island Plate
Bologna.
When we told people we were taking a brief side trip to Bologna, their faces would invariably brighten, their smiles grow wide. This was a place about which most people seemed to have some n ...
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Posted on: July 1, 2009 Spicy delights A few years ago, Kai Cowell was just another home cook experimenting with spices — albeit a very well-trained one, having studied at the Culinary Institute of America and finished her training at Kapi'olani Community College.
Posted on: June 24, 2009 Maple syrup flavors beans for the Fourth Going to a potluck on the Fourth? Why not take some slow-cooked maple beans? It's great for any backyard barbecue and so healthy, too. Since our country's early inhabitants discovered maple syrup, it seems like the perfect sweetener for this all-American holiday.
Posted on: July 1, 2009 Cold sangria refreshes on a hot day Thank you Boreas (god of the north wind) for blowing the trades back. I think this is the hottest summer I have endured since I arrived in Hawai'i 17 years ago.
Posted on: July 1, 2009 Campout cooking can be made easier With the Fourth of July just upon us, many of us are planning camping trips, or at least an...
Posted on: July 1, 2009 Moana's mango contest: recipes wanted You can win amenities from the Moana Surfrider hotel, cookbooks and the admiration of mango lovers...
Posted on: July 1, 2009 Cookies to delight any chocoholic Q. I tasted a mudslide cookie at a local bakery and thought I had died and gone to heaven. Have you...
Posted on: July 1, 2009 Background behind 'exotic' curry powder What's really in curry powder? Curry powder is a spice mix created by the British in an effort to...
Posted on: July 1, 2009 Use Kaiulani Spices with rice, veggies This is Kai Cowell's signature dish, the one she most often serves during samplings and...
Posted on: July 1, 2009 Meryl Streep channels Julia Child Meryl Streep as Julia Child? Could there be any filmic thing more calculated to set a foodie's...
Posted on: June 26, 2009 Hawaii eats section If you spend even five minutes at Aku Bone, you'll quickly discover what the place is all about — pupu. Here, you'll find that kind of terrific, only-in-Hawai'i menu of grinds that instantly waters the mouths of anyone born local.
Posted on: June 19, 2009 Manalani's: healthy plate lunches with kick Yvonne Nielsen grew up in in Milwaukee, where her dad operated a 24-hour-a-day diner offering "gourmet food at workman's prices." She vowed she'd never get into the restaurant business, which tends to consume one's life.
Posted on: June 19, 2009 Hawaii eats section Da Hawaiian Stop, which opened last year in the old home of Rada's Piroshki, offers Hawaiian plate lunches that are so 'ono, you'll think your own Auntie Mary was cooking there. All the food is made from scratch, not mass produced and frozen.
Posted on: June 12, 2009 Street eats par excellence — that's Chinatown Walking and noshing, noshing and walking — we do love multitasking. So we slap on the sunscreen, gather our dollar bills, and go to Chinatown to find delectable, cheap eats.
