Hawaii Foodbank

Your Weekend: Ideas for Family Fun-August 13, 2020

Courtesy of hawaiifoodbank.org Editor’s Note: Whether you go out or stay at home is your choice, so we are making sure we offer fun for both options in our Weekend Guide. Give Virtually The Hawaiʻi Foodbank’s annual food drive will not feature smiling…

Party pics: 10th annual Great Chefs Fight Hunger

Hundreds of people turned out to support the Hawaii Foodbank’s 10th annual Great Chefs Fight Hunger fundraiser, featuring about 20 Oahu restaurants and 13 beverage companies at the main warehouse in Mapunapuna. This year’s crowd was even larger, as the…

Do good: Fight hunger with CANstruction

Yesterday was the 10th annual CANstruction® competition, put on by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Honolulu, where teams of architects, designers and engineers used their talents to create gigantic structures made of canned goods to benefit the Hawaii Foodbank. If…

Spam-azing! Guide to Saturday’s Spam Jam

Spring breezes are wafting the onolicious scents of briny, juicy pork products, and that can only mean one thing: Waikiki Spam Jam! Once again, the epic street fest takes over Kalakaua Avenue in a massive celebration of our beloved canned…

Hawaii Foodbank Great Chefs Fight Hunger 2015

The Hawaii Foodbank held its annual Great Chefs Fight Hunger fundraiser Saturday night at its Mapunapuna warehouse, bringing together hundreds of supporters to enjoy delicious bites prepared by Hawaii’s top restaurants. HASR Bistro prepared a roasted bone marrow with braised…

Fighting hunger with CANstruction

I can’t believe I’ve only covered the big CANstruction event once all these years. I guess I was so amazed by the architectural feats using canned goods, I must have assumed you all were already checking them out.Yesterday was the…

Did this: Great Chefs Fight Hunger 2014

About 600 people attended the Hawaii Foodbank’s annual Great Chefs Fight Hunger this past weekend, a fundraising gala in their Mapunapuna warehouse. In addition to 20 different booths with creative dishes by  renowned Oahu chefs, there was wine, beer, sake, cocktails…

Did this: Great Chefs Fight Hunger

The Hawaii Foodbank held its annual Great Chefs Fight Hunger fundraiser Saturday night, with 22 food stations and nine beverage booths scattered throughout the Mapunapuna warehouse. Although it’s not the Foodbank’s biggest fundraiser, it’s the most favorite one, drawing people…

Rice is nice

It’s no secret: I love rice.I can eat it plain, topped with furikake, paired with Spam and nori, smothered in brown gravy, and even with garlic salt.It’s the first thing I like to eat when I come home after a…

My weekend of unusual structures

This blog has given me the opportunity to experience a lot of different adventures … and if you’ve been reading me for a while, you know that I love the quirky stuff. So when PR divas Susan Sunderland and Sandi…