Culinary Calendar
Advertiser Staff
TOMORROW
• BREWER'S DINNER, five-course meal matched with house-made beers, 6-9 p.m. Sam Choy's Breakfast, Lunch & Crab; $39.99. Menu: Smoked Kalua Duck Spring Rolls with Green Bottle Lager; Asian Grilled Shrimp with Ehu Ale; Grilled Beef Neptune (sliced beef with crab in bernaise sauce) with hefeweizen (seasonal wheat beer); Stuffed Pork Tenderloin (with Portuguese sausage and spinach sweet bread stuffing with red wine demi-glaze) with Steamship Lager; Kiawe Porter Cheesecake with Kiawe Honey Porter. Reservations required: 545-7979.
FRIDAY
• WINEZ & GRINDZ, five-course meal designed by chef de partie Laura Fong, 5-8:40 p.m., at The Pineapple Room at Liberty House; $49. Menu: Chinese Roast Duck with Foie Gras Won Ton; Check Board Sashimi Salad with Ponzu and Soy Dressing; Broiled Unagi with Chili OIl and Pickled Vegetable Relish; Five-Spice Braised Veal Shank with Lup Cheong Risotto and Shiitake Mushroom Ragout and the Pineapple Room dessert selection. Reservations: 945-6573.
• JOAN NAMKOONG book signing for "Go Home, Cook Rice," noon-1 p.m. Native Books and Beautiful Things, 222 Merchant St.
SATURDAY
• VEGETARIAN SANDWICHES AND PITA BREAD, with instructor Eileen Towata, 9:30-11:45 a.m., Lyon Arboretum; $8, $7 Lyon Arboretum members. 988-0465.
• JOAN NAMKOONG book signing for "Go Home, Cook Rice," noon-1 p.m. Borders Books & Music, Kona; 2:30-4 p.m., Cook's Discoveries, Waimea.
SUNDAY
• JOAN NAMKOONG book signing for "Go Home, Cook Rice," noon-1 p.m. Borders Books & Music-Hilo; 2-3 p.m., Book Galleries, HIlo.
• Alan Wong's second annual Gingerbread Festival, during which families can build their own gingerbread houses with prepared gingerbread, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 2, Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall; it helps support home economics training for teens with disabilities and special needs in a program organized by Easter Seals Hawai'i. Reservations: 536-1015.
MONDAY
• "KUNIA, O'AHU," a visit to Kunia with Roy Yamaguchi and Jeremiah Tower on "Hawai'i Cooks with Roy Yamaguchi," 7:30 p.m., KHET Channel 11 (10 on Oceanic).
COMING UP
• 10th annual Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel Sam Choy Poke FestivaL, Dec. 7-9, Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Kohala Coast, Big Island. Info: (808) 880-3023.
Send items for the Culinary Calendar to Taste, The Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802. Call 535-2412, fax 525-8055 or e-mail taste@honoluluadvertiser.com.
