Hawaii Farmers Market on Oahu

One of the most refreshing and visually interesting activities in Honolulu is a morning visit to the local farmers market.  Offered several days per week in various locations around town, the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation sponsored Farmers Market is a feast for all the senses.   On Saturday Mornings in Honolulu just around the back side of Diamond Head at Kapiolani Community College the market is a fantastic way to start the weekend. Work up an appetite with a run along Diamond Head Road and take in the early morning surf action at Light House, a popular local surf spot at the base of Diamond Head. Then head on around to the Farmers Market.  The Culinary Institute of the Pacific has some great chefs on hand cooking up a broad assortment of good eats for Breakfast or Lunch.  From 'Plate Lunch Specials' to gourmet delicacies, there is something for every taste.  .After you've sated your hunger pangs, shop for organic veggies and beautiful flowers to help you prepare for your 'cocktails and pupu' partry or to dress up your dinner table.  This farmers market is also co-sponsored by both the Department of Agriculture and the Culinary Institute of the Pacific, so you are certain of discovering unique and unusual preparations of fresh, green and sustainable foods.  

Beautiful Sun ripened fruits await you ....delicious gourmet foods.

Plate Lunch heaven, your gourmet choices are all extraordinary

Cooked to your liking, or prepped for you to take home and cook later, 

it is literally a 'one stop' shop.

Fresh cut flowers or blooming orchids......exotic, colorful and this is every week!

Check out the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, a group founded in 1950 that includes over 22oo island farmers and supports sustainable farming and local produce growers throughout the Hawaiian Islands. Their website features each weeks schedule and vendor information as well as information on the other Famers Markets on Oahu and on the neighbor islands throughout the week.  This is one weekly event not to be missed!

Hawaii Five-0 NOT The Time to Go to Luxury Row - Hawaii Tsunami has Caused Evacuation of Kalakaua Ave in Honolulu

        

Kalakaua Ave and Don the Beachcomber 1957

Heres a Link to our Earlier Post on Luxury Row..

Kalakaua Ave Now.

Courtesy Sail World

Hawaii Tsunami Information and Live Stream Coverage

NOAA Inundation Zone Map.

Hawaii Five-0 Time to Go to Luxury Row!

If you haven't been to Honolulu or haven't been here since Jack Lord was posing for his  close up atop a glamorous modernist  Honolulu High Rise Then you haven't' seen Luxury Row on Waikiki's Kalakaua Ave. Shopping in this district has definitely been ramped up to World Class. Along with Luxury Row, Waikiki Beach Walk™ and the renovation of the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center has brought new life to what had become a rather dreary section of Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki. You will find these "gorgeous" boutiques luxury brands there.

Tiffany & Co

                                    

COACH

APPLE

                                      

Yves Saint Laurent

CHANEL

GUCCI

TOD'S

B O T T E G A  V E N E T A

BOTTEGA VENETA

HUGO BOSS

LOUIS VUITTON

MaxMara

Tiffany & Co., Coach, YvesSaintLaurent, Chanel, Gucci, Tod's, Bottega Veneta, and Hugo Boss are at 2100 Kalakaua Ave. Nearby are also, Louis Vuitton & Max Mara and Apple.





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Adventure & Environment - Have Fun and Teach the Keiki

Eia Mākou Mālama Maunalua

Eia mākou Mālama Maunalua! (We are Mālama Maunalua)

People of the ‘āina and ocean, those who dwell and care for beloved Maunalua

In the Kona district of O’ahu of Ali’i Kākuhihewa

Maunalua, where the ‘iwa flies above the clouds

‘Elepaio (native flycatcher) chatter and flutter among the koa

The twin feathers of the ‘auku’u (Black-crowned night heron) are tossed by the beach wind

And the schools of ‘ama’ama (mullet) swim below

From Kawaihoa (Portlock Point) where Kāne brought forth life-giving water

To the crashing waves of Kūpikipiki’ō (Black Point)

Kuamo’o-o-Kāne’apua (Koko Head) and Kohelepelepe (Koko Crater) are majestic

Maunalua extends to the cliffs of Pu’u-o-Kona (of Kuli’ou’ou) and Pu’u Lanipō (of Wai’ālae Nui)

To the reefs built by coral polyps, our kin, and the sandy flats where the sea grasses dance

Cherished is the fishpond, Ke’ahupua-o-Maunalua, its companion is Ka’elepulu (in Kailua)

Laukupu, a mo’o, is the guardian of Maunalua

The sea of Koko is for ‘Ouha, the akua manō (shark god) who stands guard

In honor of the akua (gods), our ‘aumakua (family gods), and kūpuna kahiko (ancestors)

We take on this kuleana to learn, share, laulima (work together), and persevere

Our spirits fly high like the ‘iwa above, our intentions, true and deep as Kanaloa’s seas

We will protect, honor, and mālama Maunalua to the last breath

Eia mākou ‘o Mālama Maunalua! (We are Mālama Maunalua)

Lance “Mahi” La Pierre, Maunalua, Kona, O’ahu, May 9, 2008

A remarkable effort led by just a few our friends and neighbors and a small core group of donors led to a partnership with The Nature Conservancy and to an award of Fed Stimulus Money (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) specifically for this Alien Algae Removal Project as reported KHON2 News. This grass roots local group put a grant proposal together for what really is a "shovel ready" project. We can personally attest to the fact that there is no wasteful or ambiguous allocation of funds going on here. See News video.

Be Green 2: Fed Stimulus Money Going to Algae Removal Project - KHON2.com. The stimulus money is specifically for a removal of invasive alien algae project that is under the  direction of Mālama Maunalua. MM still is a under funded organization that operates on a shoe string. Here is a link to their site where donations can be made to this fantastically effective non-profit group. Mālama Maunalua, in association with The Nature Conservancy and NOAA MM is really making a difference in the restoration and preservation of this Beautiful Bay.

Alien algae have been recognized as one of the top threats to our oceans’ health and recovery, in Hawai‘i and elsewhere. This threat is exacerbated by sedimentation from land-based sources which helps invasive algae get established and grow on reef flats. Compounding the problem, fishing pressure has dramatically reduced populations of plant-eating species like parrotfishes (uhu) and sea urchins. Once established, invasive algae drastically alter the seabed by smothering and killing corals and seagrass meadows, and overwhelming and destroying habitat for other reef life.

View of Maunalua By from our Lanai at our Black Point Property.

Aerial Photo showing a "Patch" of removed alien algae and it is not coming back!

Algea is removed like this, pick it up and stick it in the bag after inspecting contents for sea life.

Bags are transferred to Canoes or Kayaks then brought ashore and weight and carted off for bio reuse, such as mulching.

Teaching the Keiki (children) is a very important aspect of the community outreach. Getting them to the beach to watch and participate leads to an understanding that they will inherit this responsibility. Understanding the relationship between the Makua and Makai (the mountains and the sea) is something that Keiki need to learn early. Here Congressman Neil Abercrombie Representative of Hawaii's 1st District, instructs Keiki for a photo op.





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The Perfect Lychee Martini Depends on Your Mood

Two of our favorite restaurants in Honolulu that serve great Lychee Martinis are Indigo for eurasian / Dim Sum and Mongolian food and Alan Wong's Restaurant (click link for menu) for Hawaii regional cuisine.





Lychees on Line is the perfect place to decide what type of lychee you want to prepare for a martini recipe, fresh, frozen or canned. For two very different recipes check out these two at foodnetwork.com, or at epicurious.com. If your in the mood for something a little more labor intensive but delicious, the epicurious  recipe is the same served at Kittichai at 60 Thompson in Manhattan. We love Kittichai, the hotel and their martini, however we honestly prefer our abbreviated version which we have perfected over and over again when we are in Honolulu.

Our Martini:

Martini Shaker

Ice

8 0z Belvedere Vodka

1/4 tsp White Vermouth

1/4 tsp lychee syrup (from the can) or 1/4 tsp powdered sugar

Shake...pour and garnish with 2 lychee fruit skewered on a great toothpick.   Note:  Lychee may be found in the asian food section of the grocery.

This is a great drink, not sweet, but very flavorful and the essence of the tropics....Aloha!





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Hawaiiana and Vintage Hawaiian Art

Vintage Hawaiian Art is one of our favorite things to source here in Honolulu when decorating our Honolulu period era properties in a traditional Hawaiiana Style. Here is a link to a site that has an amazing amount of Hawaiian "stuff" or 'Hawaiiana' as it is known by in. This site has inexpensive and reproduction goods mostly, but it is a fantastic gift source, or can give you decorating ideas from a Kid's Room to a 1960's style Basement Rec Room...to get you through the cold winter days. Of course we like the real stuff, vintage and authentic but it is much harder to find in good condition. This link to Hawaiian Days will give you huge inventory to choose from, ranging from prints to furniture and lamps.   Plus its a great idea site if you don't know what's available.  Its all here. We'll be doing an "Art"  post on each of these Hawaiian artists later.  

John Kelly

Eugene Savage

Gill

Frank Macintosh

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His Final Decades in Hawaii: Jean Charlot 1897-1979

Although he was born and raised in France, Jean Charlot spent the final decades of his prolific career in Hawaii. In fact a 1966 retrospective exhibition of his art was held at the Honolulu Academy of Art. We have collected Charlot original prints and incorporated the collection into the decorating of our Home in Montecito.

Jean Charlot, 'LOEA HULA', Oil Painting of Iolani Luahine

Image Courtesy of  Charlot Collection at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library

Jean Charlot studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris before serving in the French Army during World War I.  His mother, with her French, Mexican and Jewish lineage, introduced him to Mexico in 1920, where he sketched for archeologists excavating Mayan ruins.  He became enthused with his Mexican heritage, as evident in a series of mural paintings in Mexico City assisting Diego Rivera and other members of the Syndicate of Painters and Sculptors.  Charlot is credited by Rivera for reviving and refining the fresco technique that he used.  After working from 1929 with lithography printer George Miller in New York, Charlot began a lifetime collaboration in 1933 with Lynton R. Kistler, master lithography printer in Los Angeles, reputedly making the first stone-drawn color lithographs in the United States.  Charlot devoted himself to themes of family and the working class, revealing the universality of human nature. Bio from,  Toby Moss Gallery, Los Angeles.

Jean Charlot, "The Spear Thrower" Original Silkscreen, 1974

During his career Jean Charlot received major awards from the Guggenheim Fellowship and Yale University. In 1966 a retrospective exhibition of his art was held at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and in 1968 a similar exhibition took place at the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City. Today, major collections of Charlot's prints are found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Smithsonian Institution, the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts and at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jean Charlot, LAUHALA, KAPAKAHI STREAM, KAAHALA OAHU, Serigraph, 1978

Jean Charlot, 'Hala Grove, Kahuwai, Hawaii', serigraph , Hawaii State Art Museum

For Additional information on Hawaiin Art.

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