Author: Blake Cole
Kona coffee from the Kona region of the Island of Hawaii is a preferred choice all around the planet, and for great cause. It offers a robust, full bodied flavor that you can’t unearth in any other coffee. Kona coffee is produced on the Island of Hawaii, also recognized as the Big Island. […]

Twenty or thirty years ago, “fine dining in Hawaii” would have probably been considered an oxy-moron.  The only images of eating in Hawaii was of poi served at a luau or the ever present Spam.  However,  fine dining in Waikiki has become as commonplace today as it was lacking back then.  Its a melding of […]

The Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company, better known as HC&S, is the last surviving sugar plantation in Hawaii.   Located on the island of Maui, it was the first business venture of Alexander & Baldwin, in 1869.  That’s when boyhood friends, Samuel Alexander and Henry Baldwin, purchased 12 acres and after adding another 559 acres, […]

Pele, the Hawaiian Goddess of Fire
who makes her home in Kilauea at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.  There are many stories of her origins, many of which are similar to stories of Maori’an legends in New Zealand.
In addition to the legends of how Pele came to make her home on the Big Island, there are […]