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American Cancer Society Eat A Rainbow Campaign

February 25, 2010 – 6:35 am

Over the past months, I have been spending a lot of time at the American Cancer Society for my light duty. Because of my culinary background, they asked me to help them organize an event called Eat A Rainbow. This month long event in March is meant to help raise awareness for Colorectal Cancer Month. [...]

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SB2170: Let Your Voice Be Heard!

February 22, 2010 – 12:50 am

My name is Edward T. Morita.  I am writing to you in opposition to SB2170, Relating to Force Feeding, which will be up for Senate Judiciary Committee decision making on Tuesday, February 23. The bill only bans the sale of foie gras produced through the gavage technique, but how does the state intend to enforce [...]

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SB2170: Get Informed

February 19, 2010 – 12:26 pm

SB2170, the Hawaii Senate bill to ban the production and sale of foie gras (which will be discussed in the Judiciary and Government Operations committee on February 23rd) has become a very hot button topic on this blog.
Why stop at foie gras? Why don’t you order a dog to eat? Or your next [...]

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Hawaii Senators apparently have nothing better to do…

February 4, 2010 – 1:46 am

Less then 24 hours after having a very enjoyable meal at Alan Wong’s sampling locally grown beef from Kuahiwi Ranch on the Big Island, I find out that the state senate has a bill that will attempt to ban the sale of Foie Gras in Hawaii.
Based from the language in the bill, they are making [...]

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Mail Bag: Oxygenated Water

January 23, 2010 – 1:34 am

A while a go, I received this comment to my post on Oxygenated Water. I originally thought of just deleting it, but why do that when it would be so much more fun to see if I can get a debate going. So, here is the comment from someone named James.
It is amazing to me [...]

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Roy Yamaguchi to Host Benefit for Haiti

January 16, 2010 – 8:00 am

Since Tuesday, January 12th, the world has watched as the people of Haiti struggled in the aftermath of a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake. It didn’t take long for governments and organizations started to rally to their aid, but more help is still needed. It is for this reason that Hawaii Chef, Roy Yamaguchi has partnered [...]

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How Do You Measure A Year? I Measure It In Swag

January 15, 2010 – 8:40 am

Yesterday, I discovered that, social networking Twitvite commemorated it’s first birthday by publishing a list of it’s top users from 2009. Hawaii’s kama’aina have always been very social, which is why since Twitvite’s launch in January 2009, Hawaii has always been in the top five on the list of scheduled twitvites. However, I was amazed [...]

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The Curse Continues…

January 2, 2010 – 4:02 am

Just when I thought that I had made it through a new year’s eve without something happening, I find out about this. Apparently, when I was at my aunt’s house ringing in the new year with my family, the driver’s side mirror on my car was smashed.
Anyone who knows me will confirm that they can [...]

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Happy New Year!!!

January 1, 2010 – 12:01 am

Since my accident back in April, I’ve been slacking on a few things on my blog. One of which was my Holiday Humor posts. I made a New Year’s resolution 12 years ago to not make any more New Year’s resolutions, and I’m not gonna break it now by promising that I will do them [...]

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The New Year’s Eve Curse!

December 31, 2009 – 3:34 am

Over the past half decade, I have had what most would call a streak of bad luck on New Year’s, but I call it a curse. You may think that I’m being overly dramatic, but the series of events that has happened to me on this holiday would make anyone believe that they are cursed. [...]

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