Cookies are only the start for Big Island Candies
Big Island Candies — which hooked us years ago on its shortbread cookies half-dipped in chocolate — hasn’t let the pandemic slow down product development. Read more
Betty Shimabukuro
Betty Shimabukuro served as the editorial page writer at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and the editor of the Star-Advertiser's weekly food section, Crave. She has worked in newspapers in Guam, Florida and California, in positions from news reporting and editing to page layout.
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Food truck champs Aloha Plate back in hunt
The Aloha Plate rood truck is in the Bay Area competing in a new national competition. Read more
By Request: Balancing good nutrition with favorite flavors
Royce Arakaki’s first job in food service, making takeout sushi as a high-schooler, taught him a couple of things. Read more
Interactive online cooking classes make a worthy COVID-19 past-time
Cook-along sessions have become a popular early evening activity, combining entertainment with education and dinner. Read more
By Request: Local cookbooks offer help during stay-at-home orders
Adam Gilbert closed a restaurant and started a book. Read more
By Request: Get creative with Spam during tough times
In the Before Times, we would now be in the afterglow of our annual outpouring of devotion to gelatinous meat in a can, the Waikiki Spam Jam. Read more
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Alan Wong ‘suspending’ restaurant operations
Chef Alan Wong has shut down his King Street restaurant, saying he will wait out the coronavirus upheaval with the hope of returning some time in the future. Read more
Oahu restaurant owners fear effects of shutdown
Oahu restaurant owners understand the reasons behind a two-week dining-room shutdown that begins Thursday, but they are still frustrated and fearing the worst. Read more
Wine master Chuck Furuya uncorks his next chapter
Chuck Furuya is no longer working the floor in a restaurant dining room, but he’s still talking wine. Read more
Foodland Farms debuts newest location in Kapolei
The newest Foodland Farms opens in Kapolei this week with a unique entry system in place — online reservations to get into a grocery store. Read more
Foodland Farms Kapolei to open July 15
Reservations are suggested for shopping times at Foodland Farms Ka Makana Ali‘i. Read more
Kapolei loses popular gathering place in Plantation Tavern
At its best moments, Plantation Tavern was just the type of gathering place that owners Adam and Sunny Gilbert envisioned when they opened the Kapolei restaurant in 2014. Read more
Real Gastropub in Kakaako is closing its doors for good
The restaurant, bar and brewery had been open barely a year when the coronavirus forced the shutdown of Oahu restaurants. Read more
By Request: James Beard finalist Gaby Maeda gives Grandma credit
At age 15 Gaby Maeda was busing tables at Sekiya’s Restaurant & Delicatessen in Kaimuki. At 29 she’s running the kitchen at State Bird Provisions in San Francisco, one of California’s hottest restaurant tickets. Read more
Tanaka Ramen owner says Oahu ready for food, fun
Tina Wang earned a degree in mathematics at the University of Hawaii-Manoa and was on a Ph.D. track when she decided to go a different way. Read more
Recipe: Dabbling in dumplings
Brendan Pang, a competitor on “MasterChef Australia,” runs a mobile restaurant called Bumplings Perth out of an Airstream trailer. His book about making dumplings is a charmer. Read more
Showing Aloha: Hawaii forges new food network, provides food boxes and prepares meals for needy families on Oahu
Hot meals for homebound seniors, lunches for kids cut off from their school cafeterias, food boxes for newly needy families. Read more
Feeding Oahu Together offers online ‘shopping’ to needy families
Feeding Hawaii Together kicked into gear on April 1 — just when the community really needed the security of a new food pantry. Read more
‘Top Chef’ quest ends for Hawaii’s Lee Anne Wong
Lee Anne Wong’s journey on Season 17 of the Bravo competition ended last week. She had made it to the top seven “cheftestants” in a field of 15. Read more
Community groups react to COVID crisis, forge changes to food chain
Here’s a snapshot of some of the many groups around Oahu working to gather food, prepare it, distribute it to the needy and deliver it to the homebound. Read more
Chefs of Honolulu’s Senia score spots as James Beard finalists
Chris Kajioka and Anthony Rush of Honolulu’s Senia restaurant are finalists in the James Beard Foundation Awards. Read more
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