Seafood fest at Sea Life Park

This weekend's Sea Life Park Seafood Festival features a seven-course dinner, fish-bones cookoff, and seafood tastings in "A Taste of Honolulu" format. The dinner is 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday, with a drawing for a San Francisco trip and 49ers game for two; $85 with proceeds to River of Life Mission and Kapiolani Community College's Culinary Institute of the Pacific. Call 259-9911.

Tomorrow is the entry deadline for the unique cookoff, set 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday for pros, culinary students and amateurs. Get official entry forms at the State Ocean Resources Branch, 235 S. Beretania St., Room 503. Call 587-2685 or 587-2689.

Gordon Lum and six other chefs host Sunday's Seafood Festival from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Kamaaina park admission is $8 adults, $6 children; then buy scrip for tastings. Call 973-9825.

Caterer, cookbook writer
discusses her career

Merry White, caterer, restaurant reviewer and cookbook writer, shares some memorable moments in a free lecture titled "Confessions of a Closet Caterer: My Secret Life in Food," 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Yukiyoshi Room, Krauss Hall. White tells how Julia Child rescued her, how she cooked for Jackie Kennedy Onassis on a two-burner hot plate, and how she got into the cookbook business. Call 956-3836 or connect to http://www.summer.hawaii.edu.

Chili lovers: Chili, entertainment and games highlight the Kona Elks Lodge and the Hawaii Restaurant Association's 13th Annual Chili Cook-off, 11 a.m. Saturday at the Coconut Grove Marketplace Shopping Plaza in Kailua-Kona. Chili lovers can see which teams will win for the best chili, best booth and best jingle. Admission: $2, children ages 5-12; and $6, adults. Chili teams are still welcomed to participate. Call (808) 937-2080 or (808) 329-4593.

Summer salad: Chef David Paul Johnson of David Paul's Lahaina Grill and David Paul's Diamond Head Grill demonstrates how to prepare a summer seafood salad, noon-1 p.m. Saturday at Henry's Market, Liberty House in Ala Moana. Recipes will be provided.

Cuisine from Hotel Bel-Air: Gary Clauson, executive chef and director of food and beverage for the Hotel Bel-Air, brings his talents to The Lodge at Koele on Lanai, Saturday and Sunday. Clauson will join Executive Chef Edwin Goto from The Lodge at Koele, 6 p.m. both days, to prepare a French-California style feast. Clauson will also present a free cooking class, 3:30 p.m. Sunday. For information, call (800) 321-4666.

Porter wines and dines: Vintner Bernard Porter hosts an evening of award-winning cuisine complemented with wines from Clos Du Val, 7:30 p.m. July 15 at Longhi's in Lahaina. For $65, guests will sample six different wines while dining on Peking duck rolls with scallion pancakes, cold poached salmon, filet mignon with wild mushrooms cabernet sauce, assorted cheeses and dessert. For reservations, call (808) 667-2288.

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