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Posted on: Wednesday, May 5, 2004

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Chocolate desserts in their own buffet

By Wanda A. Adams
Advertiser Food Editor

Sam Choy's Diamond Head is doing a very well-received chocolate dessert buffet Friday and Saturday nights only, designed by new pastry chef Fenton S.G. Lee, including multiple desserts for $9.95 with dinner, or $14.95 for the dessert buffet alone. Desserts include chocolate brulée, black forest cake, chocolate tiramisu and macadamia chocolate torte. Lee is a graduate of the Chocolate Theory and Sugar Course (and we don't mean golf) at the International School of Confectionary Arts in Switzerland. He previously owned a Kaua'i bakery and restaurant and has worked at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Royal Kona Resort (formerly Kona Hilton) and the Hyatt Regency Po'ipu.

Two cookbooks for the low-carb set

Folks following a reduced-carb diet regimen often find that, after a few weeks, they've run out of creative ways to make use of the ingredients allowed them. A couple of books can help with recipes and techniques. I gave my brother "500 Low-Carb Recipes: 500 Recipes from Snacks to Desserts That the Whole Family Will Enjoy" by Dana Carpenter (Fair Winds, paper, $19.95). He called the other night raving about a pork chop recipe in which ground nuts substitute for the "breading."

More recently, Dr. Arthur Agatston has released "The South Beach Diet Cookbook" (Rodale, $29.95) which briefly reviews the basics of that low-carb, largely sugarless, lighter-fat diet plan, then plunges into 200 recipes with lots of full-color illustrations.

Two foodie stops if you're in Wailuku

CALLAREC

Friends and relatives on Maui are buzzing about two Wailuku eateries: A.K.'s Café and Who's the Boss Bistro.

A.K.'s, owned and operated by Elaine Rothermel, opened last July and focuses on healthy, low-fat, low-carb, low- or no-sugar plate lunches and dinners and desserts. Rothermel caters events, delivers in central Maui and even provides a flat-rate meal service (a week's worth of lunches, dinners and snacks for those with no time to cook). The café is open for lunch and dinner Mondays through Saturdays at 1237 Lower Main, (808) 244-8774.

Who's the Boss Bistro is a joint venture of French chef Patrick Callarec of Chez Paul Restaurant in Olowalu (and formerly of the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua) and Vietnamese restaurateur Jennifer Nguyen of A Saigon Café in Wailuku. The two hang out together as well as doing business, and both are famously decisive (as well as very skilled), which explains the tongue-in-cheek name of the restaurant. The little spot serves lunches and dinners in an East-West style at 2051 Main St.; (808) 244-6816.

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