tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62085832008-03-17T01:23:21.584-10:00LarryBlogger168125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-9586563031934241402008-03-17T01:13:00.001-10:002008-03-17T01:23:21.593-10:00

We figured it would be safe now to do Nordstrom without getting trampled, and of course, we wanted to check out their Café. We've visited Nordstroms in other cities and pretty much knew what to expect (though I don't remember quite as much sticker shock as we found on our inspection trip today!). After returning home I read Nadine Kam's review in this morning's Star-Bulletin. We have had totally

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-35726541037651887662008-03-08T21:54:00.001-10:002008-03-08T21:54:43.468-10:00

(Thanks to the Progressive Review News for a pointer to this article) GRAPE EXPECTATIONS AFFECT WINE TASTING BOSTON GLOBE - Scientists at Caltech and Stanford recently published the results of a peculiar wine tasting. They provided people with cabernet sauvignons at various price points, with bottles ranging from $5 to $90. Although the tasters were told that all the wines were different, the

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-63406140775950076592008-02-16T17:40:00.001-10:002008-02-16T17:40:57.329-10:00

YouTube - My Incredibly Cool Toaster Via gadgets.boingboing.net .

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-20426033230291053392008-02-16T16:07:00.005-10:002008-02-16T20:05:18.673-10:00

We want to like Ploi Thai.  We've been back several times for dinner (most recently on the two-for-the-price-of-one-entree coupons in the Advertiser). There have been several reviews printed. Here is the Advertiser's review and this is the Star-Bulletin's. We like the decor, the service, and the lack of intrusive TV screens. Soft music is so much better than karaoke TV. The air conditioning is

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-27705766024273457532008-01-10T19:16:00.001-10:002008-02-16T17:18:43.443-10:00

The Green Door is open! We're sitting at a table outside Betty Pang's new location in Kahala, near the Olive Tree, waiting for our Singapore garlic shrimp. Almost every table is full! Better come soon.

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-13514480675614656122008-01-05T18:59:00.001-10:002008-01-05T18:59:08.198-10:00

Try pushing the "Now" button. FOOD CLOCK by Poodwaddle.com

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-55648589820003730492007-12-08T12:04:00.001-10:002007-12-08T12:27:38.536-10:00

It was a pleasant surprise to learn that locavore is the Oxford Word of the Year for 2007: The “locavore” movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locavores also shun supermarket offerings as an environmentally friendly measure, since shipping food over long

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-45937444573430845192007-11-19T21:17:00.001-10:002007-11-19T21:17:58.187-10:00

On Saturday the fridge is filled so that we can have a series of dinners from the KCC Market finds. This evening's main course featured fish with three vegetables. Apologies for no photos. First the veggies. Pohole Nanette scored some pohole (from Hana Fresh). This is a fiddlehead fern that kind of resembles asparagus. At first she was thinking of making it with umeboshi (Japanese pickled plum

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-34405668696463423362007-11-18T20:32:00.001-10:002007-11-18T20:38:24.877-10:00

Frisée from Hana Fresh, eggs from Blue Lotus. Add prosciutto, Parmesan cheese and toasted pine nuts and you have an elegant dinner salad. Nanette omitted croutons and instead served whole grain cracker bread alongside. The prosciutto was cut into pieces and frizzled in a little olive oil. Add sun dried tomatoes to the olive oil after removing the prosciutto, a little red wine vinegar and cracked

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-5267818871960477442007-10-06T13:43:00.001-10:002007-10-06T13:43:29.885-10:00

From the blog Neurophilosophy : Eating foie gras may increase risk of Alzheimer’s (click for complete article) The popular delicacy foie gras (which is French for “fat liver”) is produced in a way that animal rights activists insist is barbaric. Ducks and geese are force-fed corn mash twice a day, through a tube that is inserted into the oesophagus. The birds are slaughtered 2-3 weeks later, and

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-31685863244577579062007-10-05T21:07:00.000-10:002007-10-05T21:20:14.052-10:00

I found myself sitting at the computer looking at this post on `onokinegrinz with my mouth wide open... I guess my tongue couldn't believe my eyes. Check out Reid's post on The Fat Duck - Bray, Berkshire, UK. If you want a full-body experience, skip breakfast and lunch, then look at his photos. Your whole being will cry out for some snail porridge, Joselito ham, shaved fennel, or the salmon

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-43349939331001281392007-10-01T22:38:00.000-10:002007-10-01T22:49:46.605-10:00

If you've enjoyed the spicy spreads at the Taro Delights tent at the Saturday KCC Farmers' Market, you need to try the Taronator, just introduced this week and a real hot seller. It fights back, but it's irresistable. One taste and we were hooked. You can sample the different spreads, and believe me, the hardest thing will be to decide which ones you're not going to buy. We also bought two 

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-73408357406792433102007-09-10T16:27:00.001-10:002007-09-10T16:27:26.902-10:00

Public Citizen has posted a downloadable report, Trade Deficit in Food Safety. You may want to at least read a summary of this report. A snippet from the Public Citizen description: Today, nearly $65 billion in food goods are imported into the United States annually – nearly double the value imported when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and World Trade Organization (WTO) went

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-90393731677800675952007-09-09T12:27:00.001-10:002007-09-09T12:31:17.027-10:00

American companies that fired their quality assurance staff when they shifted manufacturing to China had better go out and hire them back. I don't expect a sudden movement to re-open shuttered factories in the USA. Companies know a good thing (i.e., lush CEO profits) when they see them, so they won't give up outsource to China and elsewhere. If we, as consumers, continue to purchase from these

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-35106505829283143262007-08-18T17:22:00.001-10:002007-08-18T17:39:18.708-10:00

Astute shoppers know that many, if not most, of the products for sale in health food stores are not necessarily good for you. Maybe they're better than corresponding products in the supermarkets, or maybe not. Increasingly, shoppers are aware that these products contain problematic quantities of salt and sweeteners. To entice you to purchase, packaged foods may be laced with added doses of 

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-73972990082075190772007-08-05T14:08:00.000-10:002007-08-05T14:30:19.933-10:00

I hope Reid will reconsider. Not that I have a right to impose on a fellow blogger. But `ono kine grindz has been an inspiration. And an ideal that I can't really reach. Don't we need folks ahead of us as examples to follow? Writing a blog isn't like doing a radio program, for example. There isn't an audience of thousands tuned in and listening attentively while stuck in traffic. Who knows why

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-76577047151264191452007-08-05T13:33:00.000-10:002007-08-07T20:50:38.169-10:00

We're fans of the India Cafe and have watched them grow at their location in Kilohana Square. I remember the great dosai we enjoyed when they first opened and still operated a gift shop adjacent to the small restaurant (they've since expanded into that space). They even had a machine imported from India to ferment their dough. They could make authentic idlis, which took me all the way back to

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-88476288816859419712007-08-05T12:49:00.000-10:002007-08-05T13:32:50.240-10:00

I was glad to read Nadine Kam's review Chapter 2 adds little to Epic tale in today's Star-Bulletin. She confirmed our suspicions and saved us a bundle of money. We were sitting in Little Village reading the Epic menu last week. In fact, after leaving the wine tasting at HASR that evening, we had debated trying Epic but decided to go for something familiar and comfortable instead--and so found

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-64971488712844403562007-06-20T11:21:00.000-10:002007-06-20T11:38:25.025-10:00

Info: Jun 20 • Wed • 7:00-9:00pm • Yukiyoshi Room, Krauss Hall 012 • Free • Call 956-8246 for more information and disability access.Presenter: Ira Rohter Description: Unser täglich Brot (2005)Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-80754414340871822732007-06-15T05:55:00.001-10:002007-06-15T05:55:23.690-10:00

The recent Honolulu Advertiser story, Bacteria levels souring Hawai'i milk? should leave Hawaii consumers concerned about the high spoilage level of the milk they drink. Following on the heels of national e coli and melamine contamination scares, this only adds to our uncertainty about the safety  of our food supply. Long-time readers of The Freerange Gourmet already know the rest of the story--

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-54616075605674140172007-06-02T08:53:00.001-10:002007-06-02T11:07:13.069-10:00

A large crowd gathered all morning to leave flowers and express condolences at a tent set up at the KCC Saturday Farmers Market. [posted from cellphone camera] A flock of TV reporters descended on the tent later on, so there should be something on KITV and KGMB at least on tonight's news. (click image for better picture)

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-5243863729249442902007-05-26T10:15:00.001-10:002007-05-31T20:33:40.374-10:00

The line was always long at Koko Crater Coffee's tent at the KCC Farmers Market -- not only was it the first tent at the entrance, but the coffee was certainly among the best to be found in Honolulu.But when I arrived today, ready to buy espresso beans for the week, there was no tent, so I asked the Farm Bureau information people where it had moved to. Obviously, it had to have moved, I couldn't

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-75164334034085973812007-05-12T20:38:00.001-10:002007-05-12T20:38:53.064-10:00

Pet Food Tracker seems to be another hard-working blogger with information on recalled pet foods. Check out also her article More about the non-answers from the FDA yesterday. This blog is written by Kim in New Mexico, who lists her interests as reading, writing and swimming with wild dolphins and whales. (!) And finally Kim lists this master list of pet foods recalled.

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-21818779495325900402007-05-12T16:51:00.001-10:002007-05-12T16:58:55.708-10:00

Morning coffee brings great mental clarity and contains no wheat gluten, two things to recommend it. Over our coffee we laughed at reports that China refused to release visas for FDA inspectors who wanted to investigate the plants where the contaminated food ingredients are being produced. Later on, that report changed to something about not receiving letters of invitation. We laughed because it

Larrytag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6208583.post-56678281976454533612007-04-25T17:23:00.000-10:002007-04-25T17:35:12.816-10:00

Thanks to blogger Anuhea for letting me know about her food blog The Cuiz-Zine. I've added it to the blog list over on the right side column. Anuhea describes herself in part:I am a college student in Hawaii, soon to be LA who enjoys eating, cooking, and visiting restaurants, all while learning about culinary culture. ...She's also an avid photographer, it seems, and sprinkles her culinary

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