Stuffs

Best buys and other tasty bits

 Wednesday, September 18, 1996


Hawaiian Lu'au Taro Oil slides into the annual food products show.
By Ken Sakamoto, Star-Bulletin


New twist for luau leaves:
taro oil

Like liquid olivine, Hawaiian Lu'au Taro Oil pours it on at Friday's Made with Aloha Festival. The Kona-made oil is among a myriad of food products for ogling and sampling at the third annual food products show from 5 to 10 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki hotel. Admission is free to the Aloha Festivals-related event.

The clear, olive green-tinted oil is a combination of luau (young taro leaf) essential-oil extract and sunflower oil.

Inventor Maria Gollestani of Kona said the product has a shelf and refrigerator life of up to two months, and comes plain, with dried Kona-grown herbs or with chile peppers. Use the oil on salads or pastas.

"Dip French bread in it," Gollestani said. "The flavor is incredible."

It costs $5 for an eight-ounce bottle in Kona stores or is available by mail order. Call 1-800-390-9995.

Other products featured at the Made with Aloha Festival include East & West Gourmet fruit salsas, Islands' Best gift items, Kanemitsu breads and jellies, Ono Manju mochi and manju, Maui Juice Co. juices, Meadow Gold smoothies and Kona Moka, Molokai coffee, School Kine cookies, and Italian Sistahs biscotti, marinara sauces and herb vinegars.


BEST BUYS:

Honeydew melon for 29 cents a pound at Safeway tops this week's produce best buys, besides new-crop russet potatoes at 10 pounds for $1.88 at Foodland, and kabocha pumpkin for 58 cents a pound at Daiei.

For 59 cents a pound, get fresh broccoli at Times, and bananas and tomatoes at IGH (Independent Grocers of Hawaii).

Also, Safeway offers New York strip steak at a "grilling" $2.88 a pound, and coho salmon roast is running at $2.97 in Sack N Save.


By Catherine Kekoa Enomoto



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