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HTS at Taste of the Range, 2011

Web Admin — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:00:38 +0000

Taste of the Range:

A celebration of food and tea grown in Hawaii

Event Date: Friday, Sept. 30, 2011
Time: 5:00 p.m. start, main Taste event from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: Hilton Waikoloa Village, Grand Ballroom
Website: tasteofthehawaiianrange.com
Cost: $40 pre-sale, $60 at the door. All food and beverages provided. Ticket info…

This annual festival and trade show event focuses on Hawaii’s locally grown foods, and give attendees a chance to meet with farmers, suppliers and other retailers. This year’s event will be open to chefs, retail buyers, purchasing agents, and the media.

Whether you’re a foodie, locavore, chef, rancher, farmer, aquaculturist—or just plain hungry—this event offers delicious “tastes” of dishes using locally produced, grass-fed meats and fresh fruits and veggies. This popular event also gives attendees the opportunity to meet the people who are growing our food.

Enjoy a selection of Hawaii grown teas

Join the HTS at this year’s 16th Annual Mealani’s Taste of the Hawaiian Range and Agricultural Festival, where you can drink your tea and eat it too! Try your hand at cooking and baking with tea, and just like all cooks in a kitchen, enjoy sampling some of the best dishes and desserts infused with tea.

It has been said that each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage (Catherine Douzel). Imagine then, the sensory and satisfying voyage on which our palates embark when tea is infused in cooking and baking! Both savory dishes as well as desserts can be successfully prepared with a variety of teas, and the leaves from the magical camellia sinensis can be used in a fresh, processed or liquid state.

With the growing popularity and demand of Hawaii grown tea, the culinary possibilities of tea are endless and exciting. Cooking and baking with tea also provides a backdrop for the experimentation and development of mouth-watering recipes. Whether a twist on time honored foods or new and refreshing fare, this conjures up cravings for a tea-infused dessert recently sampled: Hawaii Tea Cloud. This lovely dessert consists of a petite and light mound of Hawaiian purple sweet potato beautifully presented alongside a fresh and exotic passion flower, and lightly drizzled with tea syrup. OMG…the subtle-tea is perfect heaven.

The HTS will sponsor two booths at this year’s event. The first booth will feature Los Angeles based Chef Robert Wemischner who will demystify the process of cooking and baking with tea. Well known for his beautiful cookbooks such as Cooking with Tea and The Dessert Architect, Wemischner is a culinary educator, pastry chef, food writer and cookbook author. His intrigue with the flavor potential of the tea leaf began in his college years with his immersion in learning the Japanese language. He apprenticed with chefs in France and brought his knowledge back to the US to open his first catering business in New Jersey. This was followed by the opening of Le Grand Buffet, a gourmet to-go store and satellite locations in the Los Angeles area, and eventually by teaching full-time in the professional baking program at Los Angeles Trade Technical College. Robert has written two other books in addition to those mentioned above – The Vivid Flavors Cookbook and Gourmet to Go: A Guide to Opening and Operating a Specialty Food Store. He has also contributed articles on other food-related subjects to a variety of publications, including the National Culinary Review, Sante, Saveur, Fine Cooking, Robb Report, Angeleno, the Los Angeles Times and many others. For more information, visit www.RobertWemischner.com.

HTS’s second booth will feature Hawaii grown teas, information about growing tea on Hawaii, and general information about the benefits of drinking tea.

There’s nothing better than tea in the right company…won’t you join us??

Seminar: Intro to WordPress

HTS Web Admin — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:28:17 +0000

Prior to the Japanese tea tasting on Dec. 27, 2010, by Kyoto Obubu Tea Plantations president and farmer, Akihiro Kita, the webmaster of hawaiiteasociety.org and obubutea.com, Ian Chun, will be giving a short one hour overview of how to utilize WordPress to build a professional-level site for your business and how to set up your site to accept credit card payments for goods purchased using PayPal.

To follow along as we create a website online, please bring your own laptop

Time: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (followed by the Japanese tea tasting)
Place: Hawaiian Acres Community Center on Moho (8) Road and C Road in Hawaii Acres
Cost: $5 for members, $15 for non-members

Japanese tea farmer to give tea tasting in Hilo

HTS Web Admin — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:10:33 +0000

Kyoto Obubu Tea Plantations tea farmer and president Akihiro Kita will be visiting Honolulu and Hilo, Hawaii on December 27th to introduce tea lovers and aspiring tea growers to Japanese tea and tea farming.

Time: 5:00 PM, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 (Seminar on websites from 4 – 5 pm)
Place: Hawaiian Acres Community Center on Moho (8) Road and C Road in Hawaii Acres
Cost: Free for members, $5 for non-members
RSVP is not necessary, but would be appreciated. RSVP HERE on Facebook.

The tea tasting, co-sponsored by the Hawaii Tea Society (www.hawaiiteasociety.org), will feature various different Japanese teas including sencha, genmaicha and houjicha grown by Akihiro Kita, and attendees will learn about various steeping methods used in Japan as well as receive an explanation about how the teas are cultivated.

Mr. Kita will also be speaking about the joys and challenges of farming tea in Japan, and about his effort as a farmer to reach out to tea lovers around the world both through his company, Kyoto Obubu Tea Plantations (www.obubutea.com), and through the International Tea Farms Alliance (www.teafarms.org), Obubu’s effort to organize independent tea farmers from Japan, China, Korea, India, Africa, Indonesia and Hawaii.

The event in Hilo will be held at the Hawaiian Acres Community Center on Moho (8) Road and C Road in Hawaii Acres beginning at 5:00 PM, and preceded by an introductory seminar on building websites given by Matcha Latte Media, the media company responsible for both www.obubutea.com and www.hawaiiteasociety.org.

In addition to the public events in Hilo, Mr. Kita will be speaking at to Japanese language students at Iolani School and a School for Japanese children in Columbus, Ohio.

About the Web Seminar

Prior to the Japanese tea tasting on Dec. 27, 2010, by Kyoto Obubu Tea Plantations president and farmer, Akihiro Kita, the webmaster of hawaiiteasociety.org and obubutea.com, Ian Chun, will be giving a short one hour over view of how to utilize WordPress to build a professional-level site for your business and how to set up your site to accept credit card payments for goods purchased using PayPal.

To follow along as we create a website online, please bring your own laptop

Time: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Annual Membership Meeting

HTS Web Admin — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 08:05:05 +0000

The Annual Membership Meeting of the Hawaii Tea Society will be held on Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 12:00 pm at the Komohana Agriculture Complex in the upstairs conference room. Talk story begins at 11:30 am with plenty of tea available.

Komohana Agriculture Complex
875 Komohana Street
Hilo, Hawaii 96720

Nominations Are Being Sought

Nominations to the board of directors are being accepted. If any member would like to make a nomination to the Board, please submit the name, contact information and a short bio to Bob Jacobson, the HTS President, at info@hawaiiteasociety.org before November 18th, 2010. Those nominated can be voted upon by members via ballots sent with the Nov. 26th newsletter or at the scheduled Annual Membership Meeting.

Event: Tea Cultivation and Hawaiʻi Soils

HTS Web Admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:29:29 +0000

Tea Cultivation and Hawaiʻi Soils

Presented by the Hawaiʻi Tea Society

Please join us for this educational workshop with presentations by Bob Perry of Perry Ag Lab, and Bob Shaffer of Soil Culture Consulting and learn about the nature of Camellia sinensis, soil and cultivating high quality Tea in Hawaiʻi.

Cultural practices that are simple, economical and effective for raising high quality Tea in Hawaiʻi will be discussed including how to develop soil health, how to elevate the quality of Camellia sinensis and the essential connections between soil health, minerals, Humus and the quality of the Tea raised.

Perry and Shaffer are professional agronomists’, each with decades of practical hands on experience in Hawaii farming systems, holistic farming and developing practical solutions to farming challenges.

Please join us in this unique opportunity to learn about holistic systems management of Camellia sinensis, creating soil health and to enjoy Hawaiʻi Tea together.

Date: September 9, 2010
Place: Komohana Ag Center, Hilo
Registration: 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Presentations begin at 6:00 pm and end at 9:00 pm

Registration fee (at-the-door & advance sales)
Current members:

Free – Register Here.
To become a member for $25 ($15 for students/seniors), please visit member registration before Sept. 5, 2010.

Non-members:

$40 at the door (Please click here to register)
$30 in advance (click on PayPal button below to pay, you will be redirected to the registration form after payment)

Advance registrations can be made by clicking on the PayPal button below. Payment is handled by PayPal with a PayPal account or your own credit card (a PayPal account is not required). After completing payment, you will be redirected back to the HTS site to fill out the registration form.

Please fill out this form if you have questions.
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Jane Pettigrew Event Photos

HTS Web Admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:58:18 +0000

The below are photos from the June 5th event featuring Jane Pettigrew

Jane Pettigrew Event

HTS Web Admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:31:47 +0000

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Obubu Tea – CTAHR Event – 01/19/10

HTS Web Admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:01:58 +0000

HOW TO CREATE STEADY CASH FLOW THROUGH INTERNET MEMBERSHIP
SYSTEM – OBUBU TEA PLANTATION

Where: Hilo, Conference room, Komohana Research and Extension Center, CTAHR 875 Komohana Street

Event Date: Tuesday, Jan. 19
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Speaker: Mr. Yasuharu Matsumoto, VP Obubu Tea Plantation, Kyoto, Japan.
Obubu Tea Plantation is a six year old farm with four employees growing teas on 4.1 acres garden. It’s membership system supports their operation with traditional marketing approaches.

Event Contact Name: Russell T. Nagata – CTAHR, Hawaii County Administrator
Event Contact Phone: 969-8209
Event Contact E-mail: russelln@hawaii.edu

Pu-erh Tea 12/10/09

HTS Web Admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:40:25 +0000

“History, Processing and Health Benefits of Pu-erh Tea, a Unique Chinese Tea”  by Dr. Wan-fang Shao

December 10, Thurs. 10:30 a.m - 11:30 a.m

Komohana Research and Extension Center
875 Komohana St., Hilo

Professor Wan-fang Shao is the Dean of the College of Longrun Pu-erh Tea and Institute of Yunnan Pu-erh Tea at Yunnan Agricultural University, China. Her research areas include the history of pu-erh tea, tea tree germplasm resource, tea process technology, tea biochemical components, and tea health benefits. Dr Shao is a renown authority of pu-erh tea in China.

Contact : Dwight Sato at 969-8271

STI Tea Certification Classes

HTS Web Admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:27:14 +0000

The Specialty Tea Institute will be offering Levels 1, 2, (Foundations of Tea) and 3 (Oolong) in San Francisco, January 18th-20th! A registration form can be found on www.teausa.org. Classes are in high demand and will be filling up quickly, so early registration is highly encouraged. If you have any questions, please contact Ellainy Karaboitis at ekaraboitis@teausa.org

We hope to see you there!