
Jo McGarry has been writing about food and wine for more than a decade in Hawaii. Former editor of Gusto Magazine she began working as restaurant specialist for the Honolulu Star Bulletin in 2001 and writing a food column for MidWeek the same year. She is the host of a long running lifestyle radio program, Table Talk, that airs Saturday mornings on KHVH 830 AM from 10 – 11AM. She is the author of The Hawaii Tailgate Cookbook and the 'voice' of tailgating on radio. Visit her website: WineAndDineHawaii.com
Below are the last 5 columns written by Jo McGarry
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Guy Fieri, host of the TV Food Network’s most popular show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, was in Honolulu last week hanging out and enjoying some of our best food.
Read Column>>I did something last week that I’ve wanted to do for 17 years. I stayed overnight at The Royal Hawaiian. I can’t tell you why it took so long, but I can tell you it was well worth the wait.
Read Column>>My food week got off to a rough start. I had, in a moment of unusual weakness, promised our boys a trip to the movies if they completed a (seemingly) insurmountable list of tasks. Being highly motivated rascals, they finished them all and left me with little choice but to sit through the dreadful Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.
Read Column>>When Wally Amos sets up his booth at the 45th annual Food & New Products Show this coming weekend at Neal Blaisdell Exhibition Hall, most people will have no trouble locating him. The aroma of freshly baked cookies is something that’s almost impossible to ignore.
Read Column>>The students of Hawaii’s 4-H agricultural program could never have imagined they would have such interested and influential benefactors. In the past few years, students have had lessons not just in animal husbandry, but in cooking, eating well and the blessings that mentors can bring.
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