Getting back into the blog with monthly updates started three weeks ago but took this long to complete. I’m happy to report that I feel at a peak of health relative to my turning 70 and also mentally pretty acute rather than doddering or drooling. And emotionally I have reached a zenith of calm, being […]
Escaping From America, Into Quarantine and Marooned Happily on Top Of The World Down Under!
In need of a shave and an eyebrow trim, yes. But happy. Though the stubble is only a week old, I hadn’t updated this blog since the beginning of the year. A most incredible time in my life but I am safe, uproariously happy and filled with wonder at what revolves around me in my […]
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Life Is A ReLaunch!
In This World, There Are People Who Live For a Long Time, And There Are People Who Live For a Good Time! You may not have heard from me for a while as I go through another transition. This blog page is the only way to keep up as I doused the fire on Facebook. […]
On The Dawn To 65! (Yawn…)
It’s been a long life, lots longer than I thought I’d make it through. I ain’t dead yet but I can smell the flowers all around me where I live–frangipani, tuberose, gardenia, night-blooming jasmine and ginger–almost like a funeral parlor in my foyer. I’m just turning 65 and start collecting the wonderful Australian pension […]
Back To Travel Writing
Post-stroke, I had to exercise my left hand and get my confidence back which worked out when I pitched a travel piece to Rhythms Magazine on how to best find music in the cities on your overseas trips.
Chef Chai Makes the Last Night Heavenly Hawaiian
I have loved Chef Chai’s cuisine for decades from when he was at the Aloha Tower with his incredible lineup of music acts like HAPA, the Brothers Cazimero and many more local stars. I have turned a lot of friends and readers onto his cooking and venue with rave reports back. Now he has […]
It’s A Food World After All—The Finale
It’s A Food World After All—The Finale The final night of the 4th Hawaii Food and Wine Festival brought to a close my marathon feeding frenzy across the Islands. Held on a beach in West Oahu at sunset with feet in the sand, surf lapping the shore and stars bursting out, it’s an idyllic venue […]
Corks & Forks and Chef Rock Stars
Corks & Forks and Chef Rock Stars The days of rock stars are not yet over but their business model truly sucks with few newer acts likely to reach the longevity of their predecessors. Today, celebrity chefs are the new superstars and I was lucky to hang out with and taste their special tunes, […]
In The Belly of The Buddha
Fourteen Chefs, Three Master Sommeliers, Nine Winemakers & Five Mixologists Start Up The Madness. With an upstairs faux mini-beach and fountain, leading down to the pool surrounded by stands of chefs billowing steam and the occasional bursts of flames, with bars in every corner and wine booths scattered around, it’s an idyllic setting for […]
Hot Guitars, Cold Organic Vodka and Steaming Seafood Snacks Make the Night
It was the second night of the Ka’anapali Fresh Culinary Experience and the venue had shifted to the third hole of the golf course just opposite the Sheraton. A funky little mini-town has been made within a classy enclosure with reserved tables and couches for the VIPs, hi top tables for the […]
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The Soba Zen Experience
SOBA… so simple. A buckwheat noodle that sends japanese into nirvana. I never really appreciated it. Until my mate Shep Gordon told me of a restaurant tucked away on a side street in Waikiki, nestled between two other Japanese restaurants where a pair of brothers have perfected the art of making it from buckwheat […]
Taking Time to do Nothing Often Brings Everything Into Perspective
I’m on the island of Molokai which is called the Friendly Isle and is a relief to slow down on in its vortex of calm.. Taking a two hour ferry from Lahaina after a 10 minute walk along the shore from my hotel started the reduction in speed rather than a speedy run to […]
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It’s A Jeep… No It’s a Merc
A day on the Big Island is like an OD of sunshine and tropical breezes saturated by floral scents. Just makes you want to hop into your ride and cruise the lava fields, coffee plantations and shorelines. So that’s what we did, not in this faux-woody beach cruiser made out of a Mercedes, but in […]
Manta Madness in LavaLand
I used to be in one of these boats many times over the past 20 years that I was a dedicated scuba diver. I saw many sunsets like this in a dusk dive before going back down an hour later to see up to 20 six to 12 foot wide graceful manta rays doing an […]
Early AM Farmers Market & More in Hilo
Up with the birds this morning at 5 am loving the coolth of the morning in Hilo ready to hit the Hilo Farmers Market for a 6am opening. It will be a little less populated due to the Puna farmers getting hit by the hurricane but I vow to find a new breakfast joint, […]
Full Moon in the Middle of a Day
Hilo is a sleepy town but thrilling to wake up to early and explore. After a cold brewed ice coffee from Bears which I’ve caffeinated at for over 35 years and a loco moco (two scoops of brown rice, onions, gravy, burger patty and an egg on top) which gave me the energy to […]
Mr Marvel Mavro
I’ve been a public stomach for some time now in my travel writing and had the fortune to eat in some of the grandest pubs around the world. Not that I’m a food snob, rather I am curious and find myself sated in the oddest places. Here I am in Honolulu for my first […]
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
I make a point of hitting “The City That Care Forgot” every year when I go to South by Southwest and this year was no exception. In updating my food and music internal database, I discovered a lot of new places and shared them in the March issue of Rhythms Magazine, my second article fo […]
Rocky Mountain Highs in Denver
I’m lucky to travel the world and share my writing, especially with Rhythms Magazine which is Australia’s Blues, Roots, World, Jazz, Folk, Soul, Country and Americana monthly in print, online and with an iPad app. This month I was able to share my views on Denver, the Mile High City where recreational marijuana use was […]
Counting the Days to Hawai’i Food and Wine Festival v4.0
I’ve been to the previous three incarnations of this incredible event which has grown from four feasts and several seminars on Oahu in Waikiki and West hotels to this year which incorporate a night in Maui again, a new event on the Big Island in Waikoloa and four primo nights in Oahu. Details have just […]
