Updated at 2:22 p.m., Thursday, January 24, 2008
'Top Chef' contestant cookin' at Hotel Molokai
By Wanda A. Adams
Food Editor
Gaines-Alt, then-owner of Feed the People in Oakdale, Calif., an upscale barbecue restaurant, left the Bravo reality show in the eighth round, eliminating herself in a shocker of a move. But she did get to travel to Hawai'i for the season-ending show, and the Islands so impressed her that she took a job here. She's been soaking up Island-style foodways since November. Her kuleana is the expanded Hula Shores restaurant at the hotel on Kamiloloa Beach.
Hotel Molokai (www.hotelmolokai.com), which does about half its business with kama'aina travelers, has been owned and operated for the past four years by Blue Island Management LLC, which is owned by TAN Resort Group.
