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AARP Hawaii sponsors Makana concert to fight kupuna hunger

Oct. 28, 2020

Slack-key guitar master Makana will perform a free online concert, sponsored by AARP Hawaii, to raise awareness about solutions to kupuna hunger.

A classic with a vegetarian twist: Acorn squash lasagna

Oct. 27, 2020

How do I know it’s really fall? Instead of tomatoes and corn, my local farm stand has several different varieties of squash on display next to the jack-o’-lantern pumpkins.

Let’s Talk Food: Monosodium glutamate and other myths

Oct. 27, 2020 • Updated 4:44 p.m.

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.

Tropical Gardening: Fall colors abound even in the tropics

Oct. 24, 2020 • Updated 12:55 p.m.

Some folks now living in Hawaii miss the four seasons of more temperate regions. Here we have rainy and dry seasons. This is somewhat confusing since West Hawaii is beginning its dry season as East Hawaii is beginning its rainy season! Whether rainy or dry, fall is now and we do have fall colors if we look for them.

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

Oct. 24, 2020

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:

Special delivery: Kupuna nutrition program expands to Waimea, Waikoloa

Oct. 21, 2020

Waimea and Waikoloa kupuna are the latest to receive nutritious meals and fresh locally sourced produce delivered to their doors thanks to federal coronavirus relief funds.

Let’s Talk Food: Cake mix or scratch?

Oct. 20, 2020

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.

Pork roast with jalapeno jelly glaze

Oct. 20, 2020

Jalapeno peppers add a welcome sizzle to any number of dishes.

Crack team of geologists measure the Koa‘e fault system

Oct. 18, 2020

The Koa‘e fault system connects Kilauea’s East and Southwest rift zones south of the caldera. Faults here appear as low cliffs, or “scarps,” along Hilina Pali Road in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. These fault-cliffs slip during major earthquakes, such as those of May 4, 2018 — near the beginning of Kilauea’s 2018 eruption.

With Americans anxious to go out, walking tours pick up pace

Oct. 17, 2020

CINCINNATI — With an eerily quiet and empty stadium plaza behind him, the tour guide tried to help people picture what they would have seen there more than 160 years earlier.

Keiki Heroes empowers Hawaii’s children to stay healthy

Oct. 14, 2020

Community First is a Hawaii Island based nonprofit founded in 2014 by Barry Taniguchi. We serve as a neutral forum for the community to come together to find solutions to improve health and lower medical costs based on the community good. We believe health care is caring for health and not just treating disease, and caring for health is “All Our Kuleana.”

Let’s Talk Food: Festivals canceled this year

Oct. 13, 2020

Ka‘u Coffee Festival

Load up the nachos and you’re set for football Sunday

Oct. 13, 2020

Request a recipe for nachos and you might get an eye roll.

Tropical Gardening: Hawaii Island famous for its palms

Oct. 10, 2020

When we think about the tropics, the first trees that come to mind are coconut palms gracing white coral sand beaches. Truly, these palms have been carried by humans throughout the tropical world throughout thousands of years.

Salvation Army sets out to ‘Rescue Christmas’

Oct. 07, 2020 • Updated 1:25 p.m.

For the first time in 130 years, The Salvation Army started its annual holiday fundraising campaign early throughout the country in order to “Rescue Christmas.”

Let’s Talk Food: National Noodle Day is today

Oct. 06, 2020

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.

Volcano Watch: That didn’t feel like a Magnitude-4? What do earthquake measurements mean?

Oct. 04, 2020

Residents on the Island of Hawaii are accustomed to feeling earthquakes. As the ground shaking subsides and the safety of everyone around is assured, one of the first questions we typically ask is “how big was that earthquake?”

Tropical Gardening: Create fall gardening color with flowering annuals

Oct. 03, 2020

Sorry, it looks like no trip this year to enjoy the fall colors of mainland landscapes. The East Coast, especially New England, is famous for the brilliant riot of forests trees getting prepared for winter’s dormant season. Even deciduous trees of the Western United States are beginning to brighten landscapes as days grow shorter.

Kau Kau Kailua returns; Celebration of Kailua Village cuisine to last three months

Sep. 30, 2020

Let’s eat, Kailua. Kau Kau Kailua is back.

Let’s Talk Food: Rice noodles

Sep. 29, 2020

There seems to be a lot of confusion about what exactly the recipe calls for when they call for rice or glass noodles.

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