Features

May 31, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

We have come to a time when we need to depend more on our gardens and what they can produce to keep our food costs lower and products locally grown.

May 27, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

On my recent trip to Los Angeles to visit my son Reid, he took me to lunch at Panda Inn, the original restaurant that started Panda Express.

May 25, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

A highlight of one of my European summers was a day I spent hiking in the Swiss Alps, on a hillside above the Berner Oberland’s Lauterbrunnen Valley. I was with a wonderful group of trav...

May 25, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Witnessing a volcanic eruption is, for many, a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park welcomes well over a million visitors from around the world every year, and many of...

May 24, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

It is time to think about planting your vegetable garden to minimize the effects of increasing food bills. This week and for the next few weeks, let’s consider a landscapes that feed us....

May 20, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

I don’t cook salmon very often, but reading and writing about the Pittsburgh Marathon recently made me question why it’s not on regular rotation in my kitchen.

May 20, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Students in the Hawaii Community College Palamanui campus Culinary Arts Program have finished their final practicums for their advanced cookery and Garde Manger courses.

May 18, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Once trapped in communist East Germany, bustling Leipzig is now a city of business and of culture. It’s also a city of great history — Martin Luther, Goethe, Johann Sebastian Bach,...

May 16, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Even though we talk a good story about being independent by growing our food locally and buying locally grown fruits and vegetables, it is not an easy thing to do. One exception is by growing...

May 13, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

The 16th annual Ka‘u Coffee Festival is being held from May 25-31 this year.

May 13, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

I was craving something simple yet flavorful, and an Italian-style ragu immediately came to mind. In Italy, “ragu” refers to a rich, ground meat-based sauce traditionally served ov...

May 11, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

We may have New York, but England has old York, one of the country’s top tourist destinations outside of London. The town offers a captivating tour of historic sights mixed with an easyg...

May 11, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

On Dec. 23, 2024, eruptive activity at Kilauea’s summit began again with the first in what has become 20 discrete lava fountaining episodes. Many episodes have had dual fountains —...

May 6, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

When you need to throw something together for a fast and easy weeknight meal, tacos are often a busy cook’s first choice.

May 4, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Some of my most vivid memories from my first visit to Istanbul in the 1970s are of the colorful locals. Scruffy kids sold cherry juice, and old men would grab huge cucumbers from wheeled carts...

May 3, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

May Day, also know as Lei Day, has passed however, Hawaiian gardeners keep it going all year long. On the mainland spring is short lived, but in Hawaii, spring is all year. Here, there is a no...