Sierra Nevada is the brewery that probably gets most craft brewers hooked on the idea of American Pale Ale; there is no end to the pale imitators and delightful, almost flawless copies. Their India Pale Ale, the Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA, will with any luck spawn another round of
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Oct 13, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments
Spam Musubi: Hawaiian sushi innovation
I’m starting to think that I may have gone a bit soft over the past few weeks. I called this non-beer surprisingly refreshing. I enjoyed this slice of spam strapped to brick of rice and served at roughly the temperature generated by salmonella having hot and dirty sex. Frankly, I’m
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Oct 10, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments
A fine selection of local grindz
The Hawaiian “plate lunch” is an excuse to anchor any protein to an icecream scoop or two of sticky rice. They seem to be both cheap filler and endlessly variable. I’d imagine that you could quite easily write about nothing but the numerous variations on the polystyrene clamshell filled with
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Oct 10, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments
Taro fields near Hanalei, Hawaii
Until now, the only thing that I knew about Hanalei was that it was the birthplace of Puff the Magic Dragon, which is apparently, a lie.
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Oct 08, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 1 Comments
The Shrimp Station, Kauai
Some of the best food in America comes in shacks, lean-tos, vans, makeshift structures cobbled together from plywood and tarpaulin and fryer grease. The American food that Americans aspire to eat and inspires the most column inches in this decade seems to sit either at the bottom or at the
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May 14, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments
À la recherche du “taco truck” perdu
This week on SBS: I fear the loss of LA’s taco trucks. Still no RSS, comments are on! Addendum (Friday night): RSS is go. Point your feed readers to the SBS food blog feed.
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