Downtown @ the HiSAM

Chef Ed Kenney impresses at APEC dinner

One of the things APEC’s organizing committee has tried to do is emphasize local products like Hawaiian Host Chocolates, Honolulu Cookie Company, Hawaiian Springs water, Aloha Made drinks and locally grown produce. Thus, it wasn’t surprising that Chef Ed Kenney…

Snout-to-tail dinner: Who’s in?

Who wants offal?This is a legitimate proposition, born of a random question on Twitter that got me wondering why we eat some things and not others, and really why that should be.The question was where to find good offal dishes…

Happy birthday, Foodspotting!

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since my favorite food porn site, foodspotting.com, officially launched. If you follow my Twitter stream, you’ve no doubt seen at least one of my sightings. I remember beta testing the iPhone…