[Sca-cooks] Farmers Market, Hawaii

[Amanda Baker]

Morning, again,

        (Last one before work :-) Sorry about the line wrap
problem...)

<much clippage>

> You are holding Coronation in Caerphilly Castle??!!
> Wow... I don't know what to say that doesn't sound trite.
> How incredible!

        All I can say is, Lord Umberto and Lady Rhieinwen are
mad, and fantastic - they are moving back to the US the week#
after they Autocrat!

>Oh, I like the exotic tea and coffee idea.

        I kinda expected everyone to be doing it - I mean, would
your persona have had access to coffee? Can you _really_ get
into their shoes in the morning if you drink it??

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'Lainie said:

>Ok, my three pence...
>
> I lived in Hawaii for awhile during high school. It was indeed
> an experience. Interesting, in many ways.

        It is amazing, especially when you get away from the
most touristy parts, like Honolulu.

> It was my experience that if you were in and around anywhere
> tourists might go, you would find tourist food- bland,
> oversweetened, with coconut shreds and gummy pineapple on
> everything.

        The thing is, Hilo isn't a touristy place - one of the wettest
cities on Earth, a small, working town; I suppose people don't
have much time to wonder about 'fancy food'.

>Out along Kamehameha Hwy (called Kam Hwy) there's lots of little
> spots, not quite villages, but they have names. Some Auntie might
> have mangoes in a box next to the road with a hand lettered
> cardboard sign. I once bought some from the lady with the "SICK OF
> CANNING- MAKE AN OFFER" partly because I felt sorry for her.

        I presume there's a Kamehameha on Oahu, but I first thought
of the one which runs along the seafront of Hilo, where the parks are
because everything got stripped back by the two huge tsunamis.

        I would have bought from that lady too :-)

> for squid. If I thought fishy rubber bands were good to eat, I would eat
> them!

        It's a taste I'm still acquiring :-)

> I learned to eat lychee nuts and fresh guava from the kids at school.

        Oh! You can eat the stones in lychees? How?

> And pickled mango and salt plum. Church potlucks were a real treat.

        I bet!

> I suspect that just about anywhere, it would be the same. Real food,
> fresh food, food without 'stuff'- find the real people.

        I didn't really have enough free time in Hilo, I suppose, though
I did much better on this trip than I have before.  I definitely recommend
the Hilo Farmer's Market for an astronomers or other visitors in a hurry
- just along Kamehameha (the one which goes past Ken's House of
Pancakes at the top of Banyan Drive!) from the Pacific Tsunami Museum,
back towards your hotel...

>Ok, it was four pence. Did you get your money's worth? ;-)

        Oh, yeah.

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        Thanks!

        Amanda

Thas all, folks!!!!