Posted on: Wednesday, February 11, 2004
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College brunch benefits scholars
By Wanda A. Adams
Advertiser Food Editor
Leeward Community College's Spring Scholarship Brunch, benefiting educational funds for student chefs there, takes place from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Sunday with an expansive menu underwritten by 20 Island food companies. It's in the college cafeteria and courtyard in Pearl City, and there will be a farmers' market and Hawaiian craft fair as well as entertainment by Halau Pua Ali'i 'Ilima, led by kumu hula Vicky Holt Takamine. Tickets are $10 for adults ($12 at the door); $5 for children 6 and younger. Reservations: 455-0300. Also, Leeward's The Pearl restaurant is serving lunch Wednesdays through Fridays through April 23 (except for Mar 5 and March 24-26). Menus change weekly. Reservations: 455-0475.
A historic Tokyo bakery branches out
Ginza Kimuraya Bakery, a more than 135-year-old Tokyo-based company, opened its first U.S. outlet in the Kahala Mall Monday. They're known for an — bean paste-stuffed pastries, including the signature "cherry blossom" variety (with salted cherry blossom petals on top) — and the delicate, pillowy soft breads characteristic of Japan. They also make more than 40 types of pastries and 10 kinds of French-style breads. It's on the mauka side of the mall, next to Yen King.
Kimuraya is said to have been the first Western-style bakery in Japan, founded in 1868. But the bread produced by the bakery in its early years was a hard, dry product concocted from potatoes, beer, hops and flour. The tale is told of how founder Yasube Kimura came to create the soft, salt-flecked loaves for which the bakery is famous: Throwing unsold bread into the sea one day, he tasted a piece that floated back to him. The tender texture and salty flavor inspired him, and he changed the recipe.
TV chef will cook up treats on Big Island
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If you're a Ming Tsai fan, you might want to hop over to the Big Island next week: The host of "Simply Ming" on public television is taking over the kitchen at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows' Canoe House for a night on Feb. 21.
He has designed a three-course menu from which guests can select that includes tea-smoked beef carpaccio, butter-poached lobster, Asian banana split and other delicious-sounding dishes. The TV chef will be doing a training with the Mauna Lani culinary staff. Reservations ($65 per person): (808) 885-1473.
