QUICK BITES
Two Islanders in Costco cookbook
By Wanda A. Adams
Advertiser Food Editor
Recipes by two Islanders are featured in the first Costco membership cookbook, "Entertaining the Costco Way" (Costco, $9.99, available at Costco stores). They include Julia Cabatu's mango bread (she works for Hawaiian Electric Co.) and Vivian Nishimoto's steak lettuce roll (she's at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan). More than 1,800 recipes from members were submitted, 160 were taste-tested and these two made the cut. Impressive.
Scholarships for culinary students
Y. Hata & Co., along with Pocahontas Foods USA, House of Raeford, Nulaid Foods, Proctor & Gamble and the Rocky Group, will present $1,000 scholarships to eight culinary students from various campuses in Hawai'i. The scholarships will be awarded to three students at Kapi'olani Community College, two at Leeward Community College, two at Hilo Community College and one at Maui Community College.
To qualify for the scholarships, a student must be in his or her final year of college in September, be working toward a degree in hotel/restaurant management or culinary arts, or be planning a career in the food service industry. The culinary schools will designate the awardees. Y. Hata is celebrating 100 years in business this year; this is double the number of scholarships normally given.
Kings Cafe is celebrating
Kings Cafe, 1936 S. King St., is celebrating its third anniversary this month with special prices and general revelry, including a prize drawing. The restaurant specializes in local-style food in generous portions at reasonable prices — between fast food and fine dining, says owner Tina Lee. She has two Columbia Inn veterans on the team — cook Doroteo "Junior" Valdez and general manager Alan P. Casupang. Among the specials: $5.99 oxtail soup. Breakfast is served from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., lunch from 10 a.m. though the day. They're open until 10 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
Items of culinary interest may be sent to Wanda Adams, The Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu , HI 96802. Taste: 525-8055. E-mail: taste@honoluluadvertiser.com.
