Pau Hana & Night Life
The Rise of the Cocktail
October - November 2010Liquor and Food Pairings Usher in a Fresh Culinary Breath UNDERSTANDING THE LATEST FOOD AND DRINK TREND might be more about moving mindsets than it is about changing palates. Of course you enjoy a glass of Riesling with your spicy and seared opakapaka, and naturally reach for a bottle of Pinot when you’re ordering duck….
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Vodka Infusion
August - September 2010The Russian spirit takes on new and innovative flavors IF AN OLIVE IN YOUR vodka martini is the closest you come to linking food and cocktails, it might be time to pick up the bar list at your favorite haunt and take a look at the future. You might still find an olive there, but…
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Mint Julep
April - May 2010There is perhaps no drink more associated with a single sporting event than the mint julep. Each May, more than 80,000 cocktails – using almost 20,000 sprigs of fresh mint – are consumed at Churchill Downs during the two-day Kentucky Derby. But the mint julep may have had more humble origins than America’s most prestigious…
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Kumquat Mojito
February - March 2010Over at Nobu in the Waikiki Parc Hotel, bartender David Newman has a bit of a reputation. For making dynamite drinks, that is. Somewhere along the way, word got out that Newman’s a whiz at creating cocktails at a moment’s notice, and he’s frequently challenged by adventurous drinkers at his bar to “come up with…
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Holiday Cocktail
December - January 2010What’s the point of a cocktail if it can’t transport you, momentarily at least, to some otherworldly place? As this somewhat gloomy year comes to an end, we decided to turn to a popular holiday theme to make sure the weeks ahead are happy, joyful, merry and bright. Adding decadence in this otherwise frugal year…
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Cinema Italiano in hawaii
October - November 2009Culture and art come together at Hawaii’s own Italian film festival Cinema Italiano in Hawaii along with the Friends of Italy Society of Hawaii ushers in its sixth year of presenting films and festivities this fall, once again bringing its touch of Italian culture and tradition to the Islands. From Nov. 5 to 8, 16…
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Cruzan Rum
October - November 2009Blooming hibiscus, tradewinds, mango trees and an average year-round temperature of 80 degrees might make most people think of Hawaii. But you’ll find all this and more on St. Croix, the largest of the Virgin Islands. With a centuries-old sugarcane industry producing molasses as a byproduct, it’s no surprise that St. Croix is home to…
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World-Class Mai Tai
August - September 2009No cocktail inspires more heated discussion about its origins, or allows a more perfect (albeit momentary) escape, than the Mai Tai. Aficionados agree that Trader Vic invented this world-class cocktail, and we know that in 1953, Vic brought the Mai Tai to Honolulu when he came with the Matson Steamship Lines to create drinks for…
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Jim Beam(rī)1
June - July 2009You’ve got to hand it to the Beam family. Instead of resting on considerable laurels, those folks in Kentucky keep their bourbons facing the future. There’s no better evidence of that than (rī)1 (rye one), a spirit drawing attention around the country as much for phonetics and packaging as its peppery finish. No one’s saying…
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HILuxury Chi
April - May 2009Wherever the Mai Tai originated (and there’s plenty of controversy on the subject), there’s no doubt that from the early 1950s, the royal Hawaiian Hotel was the place to be seen drinking one. More than 50 years later, as the royal Hawaiian has been given a face lift, it seems like the perfect time to…
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