Eat Hawai‘i Island Grown Calendar

A challenge to residents of Hawai‘i Island to eat locally grown food for the month of October 2007

Events that Celebrate Eat Hawai‘i Island Grown!

Celebrate the bounty of Hawai‘i Island at each of these events during the month of October. Each one will feature locally grown foods, some exclusively!

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					Hawai‘i Island Food Summit	Hawai‘i Island Food Summit
	All Hawai‘i Grown Luncheon				Slow Food Film Festival	Slow Food at the Market, Pu‘u Nō Ka‘ai
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				EHIG Luncheon		Slow Food at the Market
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					Harvest Moon Celebration Dinner	Hamakua Alive!
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Slow Food’s EHIG Potluck Picnic

Oct. 5-6
Hawai‘i Island Food Summit
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day
Sheraton Keauhou Resort
$60 each day
Call 887-6411 or go to www.kohalacenter.org/food.
“How can Hawai‘i feed itself?” is the question to be posed to policy makers and consumers at the Hawai‘i Island Food Summit designed to increase everyone’s knowledge of where we stand today and develop a roadmap for where we need to go to reach food security. Food Policy Day is Oct. 5, exploring the future of food security, farming and agricultural educational opportunities on Hawai‘i Island. Oct. 6 will explore issues, raise awareness and provide ideas and direction for future food security and self reliance for Hawai‘i Island. Explore Haumea’s Garden from 4-7 p.m., a gathering of farmers, food producers, agricultural organizations, chefs and educational projects, followed by a concert a 7:30 p.m. by Keoki Kahumoku and Friends Diana Aki and herb Ohta Jr; tickets $20.

Oct. 8
All Hawai‘i Grown Luncheon*
Les Dames d’Escoffier Honolulu, a professional organization for women in the culinary field, will prepare and host a special luncheon for a Waimea Middle School classroom at Daniel Thiebaut’s restaurant. The all-Hawai‘i grown menu, designed by Hawai‘i Island chef Olelo pa‘a Ogawa, will feature the bounty of island ranchers and farmers while teaching students about where their food comes from.

Oct. 12
Slow Food Film Festival
5 p.m.
Where: Parker School Theater, Waimea
Come early (5:00 pm) and enjoy local food pupu from Huli Sue's.
$5 admission includes pupu, 6:00 and 8:00 films.
6:00 pm: Media That Matters: Good Food
A collection of 16 shorts (some animated, some not) about food and sustainability, includes such favorites as The Meatrix, Food for Thought, The Luckiest Peanut in the World, Young Agrarians and Terminator Tomatoes. Great edu-tainment for the whole family! Check out the official film website here
8:00 pm: King Corn
King Corn comes to Hawai'i Island- A major feature film with a theatrical release in New York on the same day, we get to show the film first in the state! King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm. Check out the official film website here

Oct. 13
Slow Food at the Market
Kino‘ole Farmers’ Market
1990 Kino‘ole St., Hilo
7 a.m. to noon
Slow Food Hawai‘i members will be at the Kino‘ole Farmers’ Market to explain and discuss the Eat Hawai‘i Island Grown challenge. Come, talk story, get recipe ideas and shop for Hawai‘i Island grown products.

Oct. 13
Pu‘u Nō Ka ‘ai
‘Imiloa Astronomy Center, Hilo
6 p.m.
$60 per person
Call Marietta, 960-5129
The “abundance of local food” will be showcased at this celebratory dinner prepared by O’ Keefe’s Bakery, provider of foods and snacks at the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center. On the menu: Salad of Big Island greens with Puna papaya seed dressing; roasted Big Island corn chowder; medallions of Big Island tenderloin of beef with Hāmākua mushrooms, broiled Big Island ono steaks with liliko‘i butter, herb crusted Kohala lamb lollipops with Ka‘u coffee glaze, roasted Volcano red potatoes and sautéed Big island baby green beans; Volcano pohā berry mousse, guava genoise with caramelized Big Island apple banana, Big Island macadamia nut tartlets and assorted Big Island coffees.

Oct. 18
EHIG Luncheon*
Alfresco dining room at
West Hawai‘i Community College
11:30 a.m.
$20
Call 322-4853 after 8 a.m. Oct. 15 for reservations
Seating limited to 20
Culinary students take up the Eat Hawai‘i Island Grown challenge, preparing a four course luncheon for those lucky enough to get a reservation! See what our future chefs can do with Hawai‘i Island grown products! On the menu: Macadamia nut oil seared Kona Kampachi sashimi on a “soyless” ponzu sauce; Big Island Goat Cheese and roasted beet Napoleon with baby arugula; pan roasted mahi mahi on a taro hash cake with Kamuela tomato coulis, hon shimeiji mushrooms and banzai pak choi; seasonal exotic fruit sorbet; Big Island tropical fruit punch and Kona coffee. Chef instructor Paul Heerlein and dining instructor Jim Lightner will be directing the 2007 class of future chefs!

Oct. 20
Slow Food at the Market
Waimea Hawaiian Homestead Farmers’ Market
Māmalahoa Hwy., 2 miles east of Waimea town
7 a.m. to noon
Slow Food Hawai‘i members will be at the Waimea Hawaiian Homestead Farmers’ Market to explain and discuss the Eat Hawai‘i Island Grown challenge. Come, talk story, get recipe ideas and shop for Hawai‘i Island grown products

Oct. 20
Imu Workshop
Mala‘ai Garden at Waimea Middle School
8-10 a.m.
Call: Jan 775-0401
Learn how to build and fire up an imu; bring food to put into the imu then pick it up later in the day.

Oct. 20
Eat Local, Drink Local
Kona Brewing Co., Kailua-Kona
5 p.m.
75-5629 Kuakini Hwy.
$35
Buy tickets online
Slow Food members and the public are invited to Eat Hawai‘i Island Grown and enjoy a pint or two of Kona brewed beers and ale. Take a tour of the brewery at 5 p.m. then join in on the fun as Slow Food members engage in their philosophy of slow dining, conviviality and supporting local producers of food. Sponsored by Kona Brewing Co. with proceeds going towards the Slow Food Hawai‘i EHIG campaign.
For more information call 334-1133

Oct. 26
Harvest Moon Celebration Dinner
Merriman’s Restaurant, Waimea
Seatings at 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.
$75 per person plus tax and gratuity
Call 885-6822
On this full moon night, experience the magical and delightful qualities of Hawai‘i Island grown foods, prepared by award winning chef Peter Merriman, a proud supporter of Hawai‘i Island food producers. A special menu of strictly Hawai‘i Island grown and produced foods – fish, beef, vegetables, salad greens and even butter from Big Island dairies – will be offered tonight, perhaps the first time a restaurant has offered such a menu. Proceeds from tonight’s dinner with go to the Merriman’s Culinary Scholarship program to help sustain the culinary industry of tomorrow.

Oct. 27
Hamakua Alive!
Pa‘auilo Elementary and Middle School
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tasting samples for sale
Call 776-1771 or go to www.vanillakitchen@aol.com
The Hāmākua Coast of Hawai‘i Island is fertile ground for some amazing foods: mushrooms, hearts of palm, vanilla, salad greens, exotic fruits, goat cheese and more. Celebrate the bounty of Hamakua at this day long festival with chefs from throughout the island cooking up products from the area. Tasting samples will be $2 to $3 per plate; entertainment and fun for all ages!

Oct. 28
Slow Food’s Eat Hawai‘i Island Grown Potluck Picnic
Nature Park, Māmalahoa Hwy., Waimea
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The culmination of Eat Hawai‘i Island Grown month, this Slow Food event is for members and their guests. Bring an all Hawai‘i grown dish to share, showing off your culinary creativity with all Hawai‘i grown foods. Bring your own utensils and plates. Drinks will be provided. Come one and all to enjoy the day at this lovely park maintained by the Outdoor Circle.