Book review & event info: Aloha Tofu Cookbook

by Misty on August 5, 2011
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Tofu may not be as culturally significant to us (here in Hawaii) as rice is, but without it, things just wouldn’t be the same. Pork tofu would just be pork! Those soft, pillowy squares of tofu at the bottom of your miso soup are like a surprise prize in your bowl. Without tofu, miso soup […]

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Book review & event info: Kaka‘ako As We Knew It

by Misty on August 4, 2011
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Whenever friends come to Hawaii to visit, my inner trolley driver comes out and I share whatever stories and info I have about the different places and buildings we see. When we pass the old Kaka‘ako Pumping Station, with its large dusty windows and rough stone walls I always tell them, “this is one of […]

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Keiki book review: Merrie the Little Hula Dancer

by Misty on April 26, 2011
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Just in time for the Merrie Monarch Festival, we thought we’d share with you a new keiki book from Mutual Publishing. Merrie the Little Hula Dancer, written and illustrated by Maureen Quemada, is a colorful picture book about the joy of dancing hula and sharing that joy with others. Merrie is a lonely hula girl dancing by herself. One […]

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Poetry & Prose: A review of ‘Ho’okupu’

by Misty on April 13, 2011
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[gn_frame align=”right”][/gn_frame]Hoʻokupu: An Offering of Literature by Native Hawaiian Women (Mutual Publishing, 2009) won two Ka Palapala Poʻokela Honorable Mentions last year in both Hawaiian Culture and Literature. It’s a collection of short stories, chants, poems  and plays that focus on life and culture in contemporary Hawaiʻi. The writing in this book is incredibly candid […]

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Book End: Weekend of March 18, 2011

by Alex on March 18, 2011
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It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time!  Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the weekend’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. Celebrate Reading Teachers, Students, Readers, Writers… save the date:  April 16, 2011.  That is when the 14 Annual Celebrate Reading Festival will take place on Oahu at The University of Hawaii at Manoa.  Matt […]

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Book End: Weekend of March 4, 2011

by Alex on March 4, 2011
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It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time!  Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the weekend’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. Akule on the wall   If you’re ever at the Borders book store in Ward Centre, be sure to check out the walls lining the staircase.  There you’ll see the beautiful photographs of Wayne […]

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Book End: Weekend of January 21, 2011

by Alex on January 21, 2011
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It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time!  Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the weekend’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. Bento Contest! Mutual Publishing is hosting a fun contest the next few weeks!  They want you to show off your very own Bento Box creations.  Design and create your own unique bento box, take […]

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Keiki Book Review: “Lucy and Lilo Help the Honu” and “Naia to the Rescue”

by Alex on January 10, 2011
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Lucy and Lilo Help the Honu is the first children’s book written and illustrated by Mary Kate Wright, published in 2010 from Mutual Publishing.  It’s the fun and whimsical tale of two dogs named Lucy and Lilo who enjoy a day at the beach together.  While traipsing around in the sand and water, they discover […]

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Cookbook Countdown Week 7

by Misty on December 23, 2010
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I’ve got a really bad case of “holiday brain” at the moment. No matter how old I get, I am always excited for Christmas… and aside from thoughts of baking yummy cookies, playing games with the family and watching cheesy movies on the Hallmark channel, there’s not too much more on my candy cane overdosed mind. Instead of a […]

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Cookbook Countdown Week 6

by Misty on December 17, 2010
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We’re going to try something different this week: random, free-association thoughts on cookbooks and recipes. And…go! Why are cookbooks so heavy? They should make appliances with up-loadable recipes, wait they already do. Is it a good thing or a bad thing to have food stains in a cookbook? Aaanyway this week, another new cookbook from Mutual […]

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Cookbook Countdown Week 4

by Misty on December 3, 2010
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Yay for week 4! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend, I know I did. I had too much fun relaxing it was difficult to get motivated and as a result am a day late with this post. Now the real partying begins. Between Christmas get togethers and New Year’s  there’s a lot of reasons […]

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