Following the example of the Big Island’s Taste of the Range, Kauai has begun Garden Island Range and Food Festival, an event dedicated to the notion of eating locally and, while you’re at it, eating well. At Kilohana Plantation in Lihue, the event draws gourmets and locavores, cattlemen, farmers and chefs who whip up the best cuts of Kauai meats, using local produce.

Next festival: November 2011 (tentative), www.kauaifoodfestival.com.



Should you be on the Garden Isle, you don’t want to miss Taste of Hawaii, billed as the “Ultimate Sunday Brunch.” Put on by the Rotary Club of Kapaa, this is Kauai’s biggest food event, with 50 or so Hawaii chefs, more than a dozen beverage stations with everything from wine to smoothies, and live music, on the 30-acre park at Smith’s Tropical Paradise.

Next event: June 5, 2011, www.tasteofhawaii.com.


(A version of this feature was originally published in the December 2010 issue of HAWAII Magazine.)





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