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Posted on: Wednesday, August 29, 2001

Quick Bites

By Joan Namkoong
Advertiser Food Editor

Island cookie recipes published

Kelimia Mednich of Hale'iwa used to bake cookies for a living. Her Hawaiian Biscotti by Keli Mia was sold in coffee shops, delis and retail stores throughout the state.

Mednich sold her cookie business but has just published a cookie book, "Sugar 'n Spice Cookies Made With Love," a collection of cookie recipes, sweet and savory, for home bakers. Mednich likes to combine the flavors of Hawai'i in her cookies: macadamia nuts, passion fruit, guava, mango, apple banana, pineapple, coconut and coffee.

If you remember her biscotti, you'll find the recipe in this book. And she has gathered some cherished family cookie recipes in this 50-recipe spiral-bound book.

The book is available at Longs, Aoki's Shave Ice, and Native Books and Beautiful Things, as well as at bookstores. Mednich will be sharing cookies and recipes at Native Books at Ward Warehouse from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sept. 8.

Nation's best dishes compiled

Fran McCullough has developed a winning formula for cookbooks: her "Best American Recipes" for 1999 and 2000 feature tested recipes and her top picks from books, magazines, newspapers and the Internet for that year.

Her new volume, "The Best American Recipes 2001-2001," will be out in October and no doubt we'll be seeing some deliciously simple recipes.

Expect to see recipes for souffles which McCullough says is the comeback item of the year. Mint is the herb of the year, cardamom the spice of the year. In the vegetable department is the beet, for fruit it's the plum; fish cookery for technique, rum for drink of the year, Southeast Asian for ethnic cuisine of the year and spice spoons for tool of the year. And if you're addicted to something, it's probably caramel, says McCullough.

Watch for her book this fall.

Quick Bites appears every Wednesday in The Advertiser's Taste section. We welcome tidbits of food news. Write Food Editor, c/o The Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802. Call: 525-8069. Fax: 525-8055.E-mail: islandlife@honoluluadvertiser.com.