Most of us don’t have sufficient funds to hop on a plane to Italy tomorrow to spend a months’ worth of sunny days taking leisurely strolls through blooming fields of grapes, and evenings at twilit dinners followed by long nights of exquisite wines, foods, and music. As painfully true as that fact might be, it doesn’t mean you should pick up that same $7 bottle of Australian Red at Walmart every afternoon when life is all about variety, vivacity, and change. This little inspirational lecture of mine is hopefully enough …

Taste Education, Maui County’s 3rd Annual Agricultural Festival, is to be celebrated Saturday, April 3rd at Maui Tropical Plantation in Waikapu.  Eating healthy, delicious food fills you up in a way coca cola’s and three musketeers bars can not.  I know its hard to believe, but if you give healthy eating an honest chance, it won’t be long before you don’t even give McDonalds a second glance and head straight home to that spinach-tomato wrap.  Taste Education and Slow Food Maui will give six demonstrations designed to make your mouth …

On Thursday November 19th, Maui Culinary Academy Associates degree candidates will host a celebration of the table and world cuisine.  Taking ques from the hugely successful mainland muse “Le Fooding” (http://www.lefoodingdamour.com/home.php), “Le Grinds” plans to demystify the highbrow food (old)world, and make dishes from France, Greece, Portugal and Italy more accessible to the Maui community.  MCA Program Director Chris Speers noted, “Le Grinds will bring together people of all ages and backgrounds to discover the pleasures of the table.  It will also give them a global perspective of the exciting, …