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by gill on June 2, 2010

My all-purpose blog. Anything and everything goes. Except food. You’ll find that at tourdafood.com

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Grapevine Productions makes 23 years today

by Bonnie Friedman on April 21, 2011

Let’s take a walk down memory lane and look at some highlights, shall we?

• Executive Chef Ivan Pahk, Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar Maui, featured on food52.com (Dec. 16, 2009) and BehindtheKnife.com (Jan. 19, 2010)

•Catherine Nobriga Kim of Roselani Ice Cream profiled in Enterprising Women magazine – Winter 2009

•Nobriga Family Businesses featured in Family Business magazine – Spring 2009

•The Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono – Sunset magazine – March 2010; Conde Nast Traveler – July 2008; Travel + Leisure – January 2008; Bride’s – Feb/March 2008 and May/June 2005

•I’o restaurant: Induction into DiRoNA (Distinguished Restaurants of North America); Class of 2007.

•The Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono (www.mauiinn.com): Only Hawai‘i property on Fodor’s Top 20 Hotels of the World list; 2005.

•Roselani Ice Cream (www.roselani.com) - Conde Nast Traveler; April 2004

•Chef D.K. Kodama, Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar: Appearance on TODAY (NBC); March 2004 (following publication of his cookbook – “D.K.’s Sushi Chronicles from Hawai’i: Recipes from Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar” by D.K. Kodama with Bonnie Friedman- Ten Speed Press)

•Publication of “The Hali’imaile General Store Cookbook” by Beverly Gannon with Bonnie Friedman – Ten Speed Press – February 2001

•The Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono (www.mauiinn.com) – Travel + Leisure – Ranked #5 in “Top  Ten B&Bs in the United States” –  June 2000

•Beach House Restaurant, Kaua‘i – Restaurants & Institutions: Cover “Ethnic Salads Accent Menus” –  March 1, 2000

•David Paul’s Lahaina Grill: Five-page, full-color feature as “Restaurant of the Month” in Bon Appétit; February 1997

•Cheeseburger In Paradise: The only Hawai‘i restaurant included in the Beef Industry Council’s national “Burger Boom” campaign; State of Hawai‘i Beef Backer Award winner in 1996

•Chef David Paul Johson: two-page, full-color Illy Caffe ad in Food Arts magazine; December 1995 (0nly Hawai‘i chef ever featured in Illy national advertising campaign.)

•Fourth Annual “A Taste of Lahaina” – Coverage on TODAY (NBC) - September 1995

•Chef David Paul Johnson: Appearance on TODAY (NBC); July 1995

•Maui Stingrays: Story on NPR’s Weekend Edition; December 1994

•Third Annual “A Taste of Lahaina” - CBS This Morning; September 1994

Food & Wine: Cover for Hali‘imaile General Store, signature dessert, Piña Colada Cheesecake (“Hawai‘i: The Next Wave”); March 1992 – 0nly Hawai‘i restaurant ever featured on Food & Wine cover

want more? take a little trip around the website…thanks, Maui, for 23 amazing years!

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Happy Trails

July 15, 2010

I heard a short story on NPR about an auction of the entire contents of the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans museum. Apparently, the family needs the money to pay off debt. I went to the Christie’s website this morning and if bids were still being accepted, I would have bid on a lot of [...]

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Aloha ‘oe, ‘Anake ‘Ilei

July 15, 2010

I heard this morning about the passing of a Hawaiian cultural treasure, ‘Ilei Beniamina. She left much too soon – she was only 55 years old.  I don’t know a lot about her – she was a native Ni’ihauan, composer, and tireless educator – but I did have the honor of meeting her a couple of times over the years.  [...]

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Shame on you, Linda Lingle

July 8, 2010

Not only an extremely misguided veto, a hypocritcal one, too, making it even worse. Today’s editorial in The Maui News: http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/533185.html?nav=9

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One man’s crazy is another man’s culture

July 2, 2010

I realize I may be a little late to the World Cup vuvuzela party but I need to have my say. In true ”Western” style, if it bothers US or if WE don’t like it, get rid of it. The horns are, obviously, part of the South African culture. So, if you can’t stand the noise, get out of the stadium.

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facebook for old fahts

July 2, 2010

I resisted the facebook thing for a long time thinking, mistakenly it turns out, that it’s just for kids. Like everything else, it is what you make of it. I do think it’s good for business, especially a small business like mine that sits way out here in the middle of the Pacific. Even more, it’s a [...]

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