The fourth annual Hawaii Food and Wine Festival is taking place this week, with the goal of promoting local produce in a state that imports 85 percent of everything it eats.
The festival launched on Friday with a six-course dinner on the island of Hawaii — the Big Island — at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort and Spa. (The festival week continues through Sept. 7 with events in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu.) Festival attendees began their week-long tour of Hawaii eating native lobster, beef, and duck canapés in a rock-walled garden set beside a lava field, fringed with Frangipani trees. But the big revelation here was the local food. Most visitors who visit Hawaii will never taste the local delicacies. I was determined to break that habit.
via Hawaii: Where to Eat Like a Local.
