QUICK BITES
Slow Food plans July 27 buffet
By Wanda A. Adams
Advertiser Food Editor
The new Slow Food Hawaii group, dedicated to preserving authentic foodways and artisanal foods, is planning a "Farmers Market Buffet — A Low Country Boil," 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. July 27 in Hau'ula.
The gathering will include a tour of Jeanne Vana's heirloom tomato farm in Hau'ula and a buffet lunch featuring North Shore products. Profits will be used to finance Hawai'i's display at Slow Food's premier international event, the Salone del Gusto in Turin, Italy.
The product that has been chosen for showcasing is Richard Spiegel's rare organic white kiawe honey from Puako on the Big Island.
The Farmers Market Buffet is limited to 50 people; tickets are $15 for Slow Food Hawaii members, $20 for others.
To find out more, contact Pam Farris, who can be reached from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 947-6404.
Great prizes for cracker recipes
In an effort to promote their new line of Harvest Bakery crackers, the Keebler Co. is sponsoring a recipe competition with a first prize that's worth a second look: New KitchenAid appliances and a $40,000 kitchen remodel.
Five other prizewinners will receive a KitchenAid refrigerator, and 100 others will receive a new cookbook by lifestyle expert Katie Brown.
In the contest, called "Top It & Win," they're looking for ideas for great toppings for crackers, making the crackers into a mini-meal. The contest deadline is Oct. 21. Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to receive rules and regulations: Top It & Win, P.O. Box 8566 Prospect Heights, IL 60070.
Mangos on menu at Sam Choy's
Sam Choy's Diamond Head Restaurant, which serves dinner daily, is celebrating mangoes this month with special menu items including mango wood-smoked duck breast salad with a mango vinaigrette, a baked mango souffle and mango charlotte. Reservations: 732-8645.
- Palomino Restaurant in Harbor Court is offering special "pau hana dinners," from 5-6:30 p.m. nightly. The $19.95 three-course meal features specific menu selections — soup or salad, a choice of four entrées and sorbet dessert. Reservations: 528-2400.
- Eddie's Burgers & Frozen Custard opened earlier this month at 3607 Wai'alae Ave. It's owned by Ed Wary and Jim Hamacheck of Auntie Pasto's and Dixie Grill. The menu features hamburgers made from Parker Ranch Angus Pride Beef and Wisconsin-style egg custard ice cream. Information: www.eddiesfrozencustard.com; 739-0033.
Pat's now sells lemon bars
Pat's Island Delights has added Cookie Baskets Lemon Bars to its line: home-style, individually wrapped bar cookies in lemon, lilikoi lemon, lilikoi macadamia and chocolate macadamia flavors. Pat's, which features island-made products, is in the Waiau Shopping Center in Pearl City and at 3571 Wai'alae Ave. in Kaimuki.
Hawai'i cooking featured on QVC
Karen Bacon, Maui editor of "Tasting Paradise: Restaurants & Recipes of the Hawaiian Islands" (Coastal Impressions Press) was featured on QVC's "Now You're Cooking" last month, showing off dishes from Island restaurants.
She didn't carry the food to QVC headquarters in Philadelphia; she hired a stylist to prepare dishes according to the chefs' recipes. She did take a lei for host Bob Bowersox. Bacon was touting the book's second edition.
Send items of culinary interest to Wanda Adams, Food Editor, Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802. Fax: 525-8055. E-mail: taste@honoluluadvertiser.com.
Correction: The O'ahu contact for reservations for the Slow Food Hawaii Farmers Market is Pam Farris, who can be reached from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 947-6404. Richard Spiegel's Volcano Island Rare Kiawe White Honey is from Puako, not Volcano. An previous version of these briefs was incorrect.
