A Taste of Waialua Spring 2010 ! |
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This looks like a great event and should really draw a big crowd. Mahalo to Island X for putting together such a great event. Waialua Town has a lot of amazing companies and products to show to the world and an event like this is a great way to get the community out to see what wonderfull products and companys make up Waialua town. For More information call Bill Martin at 637-2624
Support Local Agriculture and Help Keep the Country Country! Press Release 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Support North Shore Agriculture and Help Keep it Country! On Saturday, April 3, 2010 from 8:30 am – 5 pm, Island X Hawaii / Old Sugar Mill Brand Coffee and Coffea Consulting will host a celebration of North Shore grown coffee, cacao, produce, food, art, film, music, and surf industry manufacturing at an open house exhibition in the Old Sugar Mill, Waialua. The North Shore town of Waialua was once a bustling sugar mill town producing what locals said was the "World's Best Sugar" but in 1996 the Waialua Sugar Mill stopped production and closed its gates after over a 100 years of operation. In recent years, however, there has been a quiet resurgence of shops, businesses, and local product manufacturing that has helped transform the Old Waialua Sugar Mill into one of Oahu's newest visitor destinations. The mill is also the processing site of Waialua Coffee and Cacao / Dole. Free mini tours of the coffee and chocolate mill are offered daily at Island X Hawaii. Come join us on Saturday, April 3rd, for a gathering of local art, food, music, and community groups and to celebrate the rebirth of the Old Historic Waialua Sugar Mill. Event Schedule and Highlights 8:30 am Waialua Farmer's Market Co op opens featuring Waialua grown fruits and veggies. The Co op is made up of former sugar workers, growing their produce on what was previously sugar land. 9:30 am At Island X Hawaii, Dr. Shawn Steiman of Coffea Consulting will present a short seminar on coffee roasting and how it affects coffee cup quality. To demonstrate the effect, delicious Waialua Coffee roasted to several different levels will be served to attendees. Shawn, a.k.a. Dr. Coffee, will also be available to sign copies of his book, "The Hawai‘i Coffee Book: A Gourmet's Guide from Kona to Kaua‘i". Coffees brewed for the seminar will be available for sampling for the remainder of the event. Free, behind the scenes coffee mill tours will be offered by Derek Lanter of Waialua Coffee and Cacao / Dole. 10:00 am A concert by North Shore Performers and Recording Artist Roshan & Shivani / Clear Sky, winner of KPOI's "Best Musician Award" will kick off a special open market exhibition of local arts, crafts, and community groups featuring many well known North Shore Artists such as Margo Goodwill, Lynne Boyer, and Bill Braden. There will be many more exhibitors, including Waialua Soda Works, Hawaii's Special Salad Dressing, North Shore Naturals, Hawaii Chip Company, Defend Oahu Coalition, and Waialua Coffee and Cacao offering chocolate samples. The Waialua Sugar Mill Surf Industry will open their doors to visitors with companies such as Third Stone and Eric Arakawa Designs offering free tours of their surfboard factories. Sugar Mill Films / Outereef Productions will host showings featuring their movies "Finding Aloha The Movie" and the premier of "Finding Aloha 2". Bilderback Productions will premier "Big Windy" and other films. Movies will be showing from 10am until the event closes at 5pm. Other participants include: - Hawaiian Bath and Body / NS Soap Factory - Old Sugar Mill Brand Coffee & Chocolate For further information, please contact Bill Martin at 808-779-7439, HYPERLINK "mailto:islandxhawaii@msn.com" islandxhawaii@msn.com, HYPERLINK "http://www.islandxhawaii.com" www.islandxhawaii.com and visit HYPERLINK "http://www.tasteofwaialua.com" www.tasteofwaialua.com.
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Support Local Agriculture and Help Keep the Country Country! Island X Hawaii and Coffea Consulting will host a springtime gourmet tasting event at the Old Sugar Mill in Waialua on April 3, 2010. Shawn Steiman, author of The Hawai‘i Coffee Book: A Gourmet’s Guide from Kona to Kaua‘i and owner of Coffea Consulting will lead a coffee cupping (professional tasting), followed by a book signing. Together with Bill Martin of Island X Hawaii, Steiman has also arranged for a gourmet sampling of food items produced in Waialua. The coffee tasting begins at 9:30AM followed by the food tasting. Tickets are $25. Seating is limited to 30 individuals, so reservations are a must. The cupping event can accommodate 15 people, and the tasting seats 30. Tickets are available through Island X Hawaii, (808) 637-2624 or islandxhawaii@msn.com. The event will highlight products from: -Auntie Edith's Pickled Okra Island X Hawaii is a family-owned and operated business with a storefront in the historic Waialua Sugar Mill, offering clothing, furniture and Hawai‘i-made food products. Shawn Steiman is a coffee scientist whose business, Coffea Consulting, provides consulting services to coffee farmers and individuals seeking to learn more about coffee. Steiman’s book, The Hawai‘i Coffee Book, includes information about all of Hawai‘i’s coffees, listings of farms, cafés and roaster-retailers and 20 recipes incorporating coffee, ranging from appetizers and entrées to desserts and drinks. It is available at Island X, local bookstores or at online retailers. |
Support Local Agriculture and Help Keep the Country Country! Island X Hawaii and Coffea Consulting will host a gourmet tasting event at the Old Sugar Mill in Waialua on November 22, 2008. Shawn Steiman, author of The Hawai‘i Coffee Book: A Gourmet’s Guide from Kona to Kaua‘i and owner of Coffea Consulting will lead a coffee cupping (professional tasting), followed by a book signing. Together with Bill Martin of Island X Hawaii, Steiman has also arranged for a gourmet sampling of food items produced in Waialua. The coffee cupping kicks off at 10:30AM, the tasting event at 11:30AM. Tickets to each event are $10, or purchase admission to both for $15. Seating is limited, so reservations are a must. The cupping event can accommodate 15 people, and the tasting seats 30. Tickets are available through Island X Hawaii, (808) 637-2624 or islandxhawaii (at) msn (dot) com. The event will feature: -Waialua coffee Island X Hawaii is a family-owned and operated business with a storefront in the historic Waialua Sugar Mill, offering clothing, furniture and Hawai‘i-made food products. Shawn Steiman is a coffee scientist whose business, Coffea Consulting, provides consulting services to coffee farmers and individuals seeking to learn more about coffee. Steiman’s book, The Hawai‘i Coffee Book, includes information about all of Hawai‘i’s coffees, listings of farms, cafés and roaster-retailers and 20 recipes incorporating coffee, ranging from appetizers and entrées to desserts and drinks. It is available at Island X, local bookstores or at online retailers.
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Directions for The Taste of Waialua in the Waialua Sugar Mill.
If your coming from Haleiwa come down Waialua Beach road and
turn left on Goodale Ave. Turn right on Kealohanui St. and you are at the
front gate of the Waialua Sugar Mill.
If you are coming from Honolulu side, follow the H2 to the town of Waialua.
Pass Eric's gas station and go to the right at the traffic circle. This road
has no signage but it is Goodale Ave. Start looking for the smoke stack and
turn left at Lulu's lunch wagon. Your now on Kealohanui St. and you will see
the large sugar mill buildings at the front of the park.
The Waialua Sugar Mill
67-106 Kealohanui St. Waialua 96791
TASTE OF WAIALUA and the Waialua Sugar Mill SURF INDUSTRY OPEN HOUSE and the Waialua Bandstand Consert Celebration are just what Waialua needs to get our economy moving so come down and enjoy the concert shop in the stores explore the sugar mill and tell your friends.