CHOCOLATE TRIBUTE
Hawaiian Host is paying tribute to the candy company’s founder with new packaging marking the Mamoru Takitani Founder’s Collection.
Early next year all 8-ounce boxes of Hawaiian Host premium products — the milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, honey-coated and matcha candies — will be relaunched with the new packaging.
Takitani, a third-generation Japanese descendant who dreamed of becoming a candy maker, purchased Ellen Dye Candies in 1960 and renamed it Hawaiian Host. In 2015 the company purchased Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corp., which produces salted nuts and other snacks.
CHEF HEADS FOR FLAVORTOWN
Royal Hawaiian resort chef Colin Hazama competes tonight as a “seafood specialist” in “Guy’s Grocery Games,” at 7 p.m. on the Food Network.
In each episode of “Grocery Games,” host Guy Fieri gives chefs wild and sometimes ridiculous challenges, carried out in the aisles and kitchen of the super-supermarket he calls Flavortown. One of tonight’s missions, for example, is to make a dish with ingredients that all start with the same random letter.
Top prize is a Flavortown shopping spree of $20,000.
TAKING OVER IN THE KITCHEN
Two Big Island resorts have appointed new executive chefs:
>> At the Hilton Waikoloa Village, Arnaud Masset is a 28-year culinary veteran, most recently serving as executive chef at Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa in Las Vegas.
A graduate of the French culinary arts and hospitality management school Ferrandi Paris, Massett has run the kitchens at a number of Vegas resorts, including Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and Charlie Palmer’s Aureole Las Vegas. He served as vice president of food and beverage at the Palms Casino Resort.
>> At Fairmont Orchid, David Viviano has 17 years of culinary management experience, most recently as executive chef at Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa in Manalapan, Fla.
Viviano began his career at Jardiniere in San Francisco, later moving to restaurants in his home state of Michigan, then Phoenix, Ariz., and Aspen, Colo. He has had two postings in Hawaii, at Kauai’s Princeville Resort and Montage Kapalua Bay in Lahaina.
COOKING DEMO
Island Olive Oil is hosting a free cooking demonstration and tasting, 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at its Ward Centre location.
Chef Rebecca Woodland will showcase vegetarian holiday recipes: polenta squares, cranberry apple-walnut chutney, rainbow spinach salad, winter squash with wild rice-sourdough-pomegranate stuffing and blood orange brownies.
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