THINK PINK AND DRINK

Raise a glass of wine or two or three to help find a cure for cancer in a limited-time promotion at the Amuse Bar in the Honolulu Design Center.

The serve-yourself wine bar is offering a “Be More Than Pink” wine card through Oct. 31, with proceeds going to Susan G. Komen Hawaii, in support of breast health programs and breast cancer research.

The card allows access to Amuse’s wine kiosks with a choice of 80-plus select wine labels, and to exclusive “Pink Card” specials. The card can be replenished by credit card.

Amuse Bar is open from 5 to 10 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays at 1250 Kapiolani Blvd.

BOOK EXPLORES RESTAURANT ROOTS

Unlike many books that delve into the history of restaurants and begin with France, the academics who have written “Dining Out: A Global History of Restaurants” (Reaktion Books, $35), start in the Bronze Age.

The way Katie Rawson and Elliott Shore define a restaurant is elastic, referring to places where strangers gathered to eat and drink, including the symposiums of ancient Greece. Long before the rise of the modern restaurant in France, there were what we would consider restaurants in 12th-century China; the authors cite a traveler’s memoir of a dumpling house with more than 50 ovens. The influence of Chinese restaurants globally is significant.

The book discusses the economic and technological evolution of restaurants, service and hierarchy, tipping, sexism, chains and food writing up to the present day.