Let’s Talk Food: Teas from Hawaii Island for Christmas gifts
What a better way to support our local businesses than to buy the wonderful teas grown right here on the Big Island.
Let’s Talk Food: Thanksgiving is this Thursday
This Thanksgiving is going to be like no other. We cannot gather with friends and family. We will have our little celebrations with just our core family.
Let’s Talk Food: Cookbooks of the past
Margaret Shiba, like many others, is working from home during this pandemic. She started to sort through old boxes of files, some with recipes her mother wrote by hand as a young bride. She also found little publications, printed between the 1930s and 1950s, “all sponsored by big food corporations for the benefit of housewives around the time of the war. Such period pieces!”
Let’s Talk Food: Meals in bowls
Are you getting tired of being stuck at home and cooking three meals a day for the family? It seems to be a common complaint I hear again and again from parents.
Let’s Talk Food: Updates on MSG, Manago Hotel and more
I received an email from Danielle, a registered dietitian who works on behalf of Ajinomoto, the leading manufacturer of monosodium glutamate (MSG).
Let’s Talk Food: Monosodium glutamate and other myths
Monosodium glutamate (MSG) was discovered by Kikunae Ikeda, a Japanese chemist, in 1907 by extracting it from seaweed and calling it “ajinomoto,” which means “tasty base.” The flavors of the food with MSG explode on your tongue to make dishes taste even better.
Let’s Talk Food: Cake mix or scratch?
The first box cake mix was created 1930 to figure out a way to use up molasses. Each batch of cake mix contained 100 pounds of wheat flour and 100 pounds of molasses.
Let’s Talk Food: Festivals canceled this year
Ka‘u Coffee Festival
Let’s Talk Food: National Noodle Day is today
Today is National Noodle Day, and Marugame Udon, based out of Tokyo, with a location in Honolulu, is offering customers to bring in their receipts for a free Kake Udon with a purchase during a future visit from Oct. 7-21. Marugame Udon also has locations in California and Texas.
Let’s Talk Food: Rice noodles
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what exactly the recipe calls for when they call for rice or glass noodles.
Let’s Talk Food: Too many tomatoes
Did you throw some tomato seeds in the garden and now have more tomatoes than you can eat in one day?
Let’s Talk Food: Popcorn 101
Popcorn is a comfort food and a good snack in the afternoon, often while watching TV.
Let’s Talk Food: Secret restaurant recipes
Have you ever wanted to eat a dish from a restaurant and wonder how you could possibly duplicate it?
Let’s Talk Food: Southeast Asian dishes
Do you find yourself cooking at home even more than usual during these times? Do you want some variety in your meal planning?
What about ethnic dishes for a change?
Let’s Talk Food: Making kimchi
The best words to describe kimchi are spicy, fermented and maybe even funky. Fermented means it is a probiotic, which is great for our gut.
Let’s Talk Food: Curries from around the world
India is the birthplace of curry, but curry has traveled throughout the world and become a staple dish in those countries that adopted the wonderful blend of spices.
Let’s Talk Food: Airplane food
As the state postponed the reopening of trans-Pacific travel until September, we will have to wait another month to the mainland and then, hopefully, abroad again, cautiously.
Let’s Talk Food: Traveling through food
It sounds like so much fun to cook dishes from various restaurants throughout the nation since it is now difficult to hop on a plane.
Let’s Talk Food: Easy to grow mint
You don’t need to have a green thumb to grow mint, especially if you place it in a garden bed or large pot in a sunny spot.
