Cookbook review & event info: “A Sweet Dash of Aloha”

by Misty on January 12, 2012
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Happy New Year!

I’ll admit, it’s pretty easy for me to rationalize poor eating habits during the holidays. Really, it takes me no effort at all to come up with 101 reasons why I need to eat a different Christmas …

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Book Review – Kapoho: Memoir of a Modern Pompeii

by Alex on December 17, 2011
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[gn_quote] Decades after the August AD 79 eruption that buried Pompeii and its sister cities, Pliny the Younger chronicled how his beloved neighborhood had disappeared into the earth.  Frances Kakugawa is Pliny the Younger to a modern Pompeii called Kapoho.…
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Keiki Book Review: Little Mouse’s Hawaiian Christmas Present

by Misty on December 13, 2011
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Little Mouse’s Hawaiian Christmas Present (Mutual Publishing, 2011) by Mora Ebie and illustrated by Holly Braffett is one of this season’s cutest Christmas books for kids.

Little Mouse is having a problem we can all relate with. He …

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Local Book Puts Modern Spin on Hawaiian Legends

by Misty on December 8, 2011
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Don’t Look Back: Hawaiian Myths Made New (Watermark Publishing, 2011) is a compilation of short stories and excerpts from local authors inspired by Hawaiian legends. Edited by Christine Thomas with a Foreword by Puakea Nogelmeier, Don’t Look

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Photo Gallery: The Hawaii Book of Rice at Plantation Village

by Alex on June 29, 2011
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If you were to ask me where my favorite place to have a book event would be, the first thing that would come to my mind is Hawaii’s Plantation Village in Waipahu.

The first book event I went to there …

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Book Review + Event Info: The Hawaii Book of Rice

by Misty on May 20, 2011
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When I was going away to college my grandma gave me a cute little rice cooker to take along. I didn’t use it much the first year since I was on a meal plan and my roommate drank more than …

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Gallery: The Cocktail Handbook Launch Party

by Alex on March 10, 2011
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This past Tuesday, we attended the launch party for the new Watermark Publishing book The Cocktail Handbook: Cool Drinks from Hawaii’s Hottest Bartenders at Duke’s Restaurant & Barefoot Bar.  With the $20 entrance fee you received a copy of …

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Book Review: The Cocktail Handbook

by Alex on March 7, 2011
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The fact is, many drinks associated with Hawaiʻi aren’t even originally from the Aloha State.  The piña colada, chi-chi, mai tai, zombie, hurricane and rum runner, for instance, carry bloodlines from all over the world!

“Rest assured,” say authors of …

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Book End: Weekend of February 11, 2011

by Alex on February 11, 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.

I have to admit, it’s been another slow week!  This coming week, however, should provide a …

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Weekend Event Recap: FOL Booksale and Alan Wong’s ‘Blue Tomato’

by Misty on January 21, 2011
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Friends of the Library Book Sale

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“Happy cooks make happy food”

We started our day by checking out the Friends of the Library of Hawaii Book Sale in their Harbor Warehouse.  It lasted from Saturday through …

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Prepare for the Year of the Rabbit with Feng Shui Lectures & Walking Tour

by Alex on January 16, 2011
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Press Release from Watermark Publishing:

Best-selling author Clear Englebert (Feng Shui for Hawai’i, Feng Shui Demystified) will present free feng shui lectures at five public libraries during the last week of January. In addition, Englebert will offer …

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