EatOutHawaii.com Oahu Diners Guide
I recently discovered this website through an email link called EatOutHawaii.com, an Oahu-based online restaurant guide. The restaurants are listed by category under several key criteria, including area, price range, type of cuisine and franchises.
What sets this site apart from the others is it has more interactive features, including user blog reviews, printable restaurant coupons and videos. Videos! You can also register and enter to win a free weekly lunch giveaway.
Being named ‘EatOutHawaii.com’, we’ll have to assume the developer will eventually add other islands in the chain to the site, so surely this is a work in progress. As it currently stands, the coverage exclusively on Oahu.
This joins an ever-growing list of Hawaii-based restaurant dining guide sites, where there’s also HawaiiDiner.com, TasteofAloha.com,WineandDineHawaii.com, the Honolulu Advertiser’s Best Restaurants 2009 listing and the Honolulu Star Bulletin’s Hawaii’s Best Restaurants 2009 listing.
One of the most frequent emails I get from readers are folks from abroad making plans to visit to the islands, asking for recommendations on where to eat. My answer is usually a short list of my personal favorites (which is usually what they’re most interested in), while I also point them in the direction of sites like this.
EatOutHawaii.com. Check it out.
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The Book of Kau Kau: Good Food, Classic Recipes
and the Remarkable Story of Hawaii’s Mixed Plate
Hawai‘i’s rich culinary melting pot is featured in fascinating stories, classic recipes and eye-popping photography in Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands, a new large-format book from Watermark Publishing.
In Kau Kau (the traditional all-purpose pidgin word for Island food), author Arnold Hiura explores the history and heritage of food in Hawai‘i, with little-known culinary tidbits, interviews with chefs and farmers, more than 70 recipes ranging from local plantation classics to Hawai’i Regional Cuisine, and a treasury of rare photos and illustrations. This hardcover book includes the essential—the “Kau Kau 100 Ethnic Potluck Primer,” a guide to 100 different items commonly found in local cuisine—and the esoteric—a 1920’s recipe for a “poi cocktail”—in a single, well-researched volume. From the early Polynesians to the chefs of fusion cuisine, Kau Kau follows those who have shaped Island society with their food and folkways: immigrant plantation workers from East and West, the military in wartime, modern entrepreneurs who tap the potential of local tastes and diversified agriculture, and many others.
Author Arnold Hiura is an independent writer, editor and media consultant based in Honolulu. He is a partner in MBFT Media, which provides communications and creative services to Hawai‘i companies and community organizations. He previously served as editor of the Hawaii Herald and curator for the Japanese American National Museum. He was born and raised in the sugar plantation town of Papa‘ikou, about five miles north of Hilo on the Big Island of Hawai‘i.
Kau Kau: Cuisine and Culture in the Hawaiian Islands is priced at $32.95 (ISBN) and will be available at bookstores, other retail outlets and online booksellers in January 2010, or direct from the publisher immediately at www.hawaiibooks.net. Contact Watermark Publishing, 1088 Bishop St., Suite 310, Honolulu, HI 96813; (808) 587-7766 toll-free (866) 900-BOOK; fax (808) 521-3461; sales<at>bookshawaii<dot>net
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