Screenshot: ONOKINEGRINDS.com during the “good ole days”
“At a Loss… for words” is how Reid titles and begins the last post (dated 7/31/07) we may see for a while at ONOKINEGRINDZ.com, one of Hawaii’s pioneering and most respected food blog sites on the web. With that, Reid has decided to, at least for the time being, put away his virtual chopsticks and take a break. His explanation being “I feel like I may have lost my “appetite”.
We hear you brother. Wakarimasu. There are times when even I feel my food writing arteries are blocked.
Regarding food blog journalism, the “chore” of taking photos and going through the creative thought process, Gail of HawaiiDiner.com recently wrote in a forum where we discussed the subject, “At this point for me, I like nothing better then to sit down to meal and not have to do any of those things . The luxury of simply being in that moment and not having to wait to get the perfect shot before I take a bite is sheer bliss.” Another sentiment I too also sometimes feel. Yet the coals of my culinary mind are still burning, able and willing to share.
Thankfully Reid is keeping the site online, so OKG’s substantial archives vault will still be there.
He’s kindly provided a list of some of Hawaii’s food blogging “young bloods” who now carry the torch, including myself here at this site. With that I’ll do my best to seek out new places, new products and new ideas to share with everyone here at “Da Island”.
Arigato Reid. Take it easy and take care.
*sad*
as a local living in the mainland, i feed my hunger for local food through websites like tasty island and ono kine grindz. there are few places that serve the kind of foods you can get in the islands over here. lucky you live hawaii. i hope you guys will continue to write and post pictures because they are really appreciated by those of us locals stranded here. mahalo!