Chipping away

Wally Amos is confident that memories and his original cookie recipe will win old and new fans

By Kristen Consillio

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Sep 03, 2012

~~<p>Wally Amos is jumping head-first into Hawaii's burgeoning cookie trade, unveiling on Sept. 15 his latest company at the Eat the Street food vendors event in Mililani.</p>
<p>Wamos (rhymes with "famous") Cookies will use the original recipe that first propelled his former Famous Amos cookie empire into a pop culture staple over the past three decades. The Waikiki resident lost ownership in the 1980s of the company he founded in 1975 and but has remade himself over and over since.</p>
~~

Wally Amos is jumping head-first into Hawaii's burgeoning cookie trade, unveiling on Sept. 15 his latest company at the Eat the Street food vendors event in Mililani.

Wamos (rhymes with "famous") Cookies will use the original recipe that first propelled his former Famous Amos cookie empire into a pop culture staple over the past three decades. The Waikiki resident lost ownership in the 1980s of the company he founded in 1975 and but has remade himself over and over since. Login for more...