It Started Out Looking For a Cup of Coffee in Hawaii

And Ended with an Oahu North Shore Exploration A mainland guest of ours wanted to take back locally-grown coffee.  Since we were at the North Shore farmers market, I knew just what to get, and went looking for Waialua coffee booth.  Well, dern, they were sold out.  So I got directions to the actual coffee [...]

Source: http://www.hawaii-aloha.com/blog/2011/01/31/it-started-out-looking-for-a-cup-of-coffee-in-hawaii/

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Cigar Review: Smoke Magazine, Sample #23 (Summer Issue)

Today we have another blind review we did for Smoke Magazine. Smoke Magazine, Sample #23 (Summer Issue) Aesthetics, 85 ? With a steady amount of veins, bumps, and blemishes along the wrapper, a leathery texture is created on this medium brown wrapped cigar. Construction, 87 ? Packed well with a nicely constructed head and cap, [...]

Source: http://www.toastedfoot.com/2011/01/cigar-review-smoke-magazine-sample-23-summer-issue/

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Nov 29, A Cool Story about a Good Deed and a Restaurant on Maui

I came across this story in the Maui News, and I just HAD to tell someone... so, I decided to share it with all of YOU! (Link will open in new window.) There is this little restaurant called "A Saigon Cafe" in Wailuku who's owner has been doing an EXTRA special good deed every Thanksgiving for the past 16 years! Jennifer Nguyen keeps her restaurant closed on Thanksgiving Day, and uses the restaurant to prepare 65 Thanksgiving meals for the homeless on Maui. They pack up containers full of delicious turkey, potatoes, stuffing and other Thanksgiving fare (even dessert!) and then restaurant staff deliver the meals personally to areas such as parks and beaches where the homeless tend to congregate! I thought this was such an incredibly kind thing to do for someone! All this piqued my curiosity about the restaurant itself... Apparently it's a very casual Vietnamese restaurant, and not too fancy, but the food is supposed to be quite good, and very reasonably priced. One of the quirky things I found out about this place is that unlike EVERY other restaurant I've ever seen, they do NOT have a sign out front with the restaurant name. I've decided that I'd like to check out this restaurant for myself some day! If YOU would like to check it out, then here is the address: 1792 Main Street (between Central Avenue and Kaniela Street) in Wailuku. As always, if you go, we'd love to hear about it! Click here to share your story!

Source: http://www.paradise-found-in-maui.com/maui-blog.html#A-Cool-Story-about-a-Good-Deed-and-a-Restaurant-on-Maui

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Coffee trends 1

A couple of months ago, Time dedicated some lines to what the article writer thinks is a younger generation trend: preference of energy drinks over coffee.

She even mentions a research that seems to point to the fact (?) that under-25ers are becoming "coffee-resistant" and it seems that this is mainly due to the coffee bitterness.

The study was conducted by a reputable research firm and we must assume that the population samples and sizes were scientifically determined.

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Source: http://www.roaste.com/CoffeeBlogs/Gazy/Coffee-trends-1

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