Brothers Adam and Lanai Tabura will sign copies of their cookbooks at Barnes & Noble at Ala Moana Center as the holiday shopping season kicks off.

Adam, author of “A Filipino Kitchen,” appears from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday.

Lanai, co-author with Frank Abraham of “Cooking Hawaiian Style Two,” will be there a week later, from 1 to 3 p.m. Nov. 27.

Both books are from Mutual Publishing Co., in partnership with the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

Those who can’t make the book signing can order “A Filipino Kitchen” through the advertisement on Page 22 of this section.

“Cooking Hawaiian Style,” which is based on the television show that Lanai hosts, is available through mutualpublishing.com, or call 732-1709.

2 farms earn top Kona coffee honors

Hula Daddy Kona Coffee and Kona Gold Rum Coffee Co. took top honors at the Kona Coffee Cupping Competition earlier this month at the 46th Annual Kona Coffee Cultural Festival on the Big Island.

Hula Daddy won in the Classic Division for single-estate farms; Kona Gold Rum led in the Kona Crown Competition Division for larger farms.

The two-day competition gathered an international panel to evaluate entries from 62 farms in a blind tasting. The judges were Aaron Shank, Hawaii Coffee Co.; Thomas Keisling, Honolulu Coffee Co.; and Hideki Miki, UCC Hawaii.

Hula Daddy has 17,000 trees on 31 acres in Holualoa and processes its own estate coffee in small batches.

Kona Gold Rum, a family-owned farm, grows more than 100 acres of Kona coffee and sells it under five labels.

Canstruction draws donations

Nearly 23,000 pounds of food was collected by the Hawaii Foodbank last month during the 2016 Canstruction contest at Pearlridge Center.

Architecture and design firms, contractors and engineering professionals took part in the 16th annual competition that features structures built using nonperishable food. A team comprising Oahu keiki and volunteer architects designed and built a “Rocket Hunger to Outer Space” display using cans of Vienna sausage.

This year’s theme was “Galacti-CAN.” From Oct. 1 through 15, shoppers at Pearlridge voted for their favorite structures through donations of cans. More than 960 cans were earmarked for Coffman Engineers’ “Astronaut Ellison S. Onizu-CAN Inspires Us to Dream” structure, which was awarded the People’s Choice Award.

According to the food bank, the donated food will provide almost 18,000 meals to the hungry in Hawaii.