* Looking for a good local brew?  Building off the success of neighbor island breweries and beer-focused restaurants, a new generation is brewing plans to turn O'ahu into a beer destination.  Read about "The new wave of craft brewers in Honolulu" in the Honolulu magazine's article on local breweries by Jennifer Fieldler.  Highlights include the Waikiki Brewing Co., Honolulu BeerWorks, Lanikai Brewing Co., Craft Beer Economics, and the Palolo Valley Brewing Co. You might even want to take your own tour to sample the various brews

    

*  Interested in a Slow Food Tour?  Slow Food California and Mexico offer the Ark of Taste and  Presidia Tour, Culinary History and Culture in Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Puebla on November 6 - 15, 2015.  Taste vanilla from La Chinatla, Oaxaca, amaranth from the Valley of Tehuacan, blue corn and pulque from Tiaxcala, among other heritage dishes and ingredients.  Travel to rarely visited regions of Mexico for an in-depth encounter with the ancient foods of Mexico.  For more information, go to Tia Stephanie Tours. 

 

*  Ask Congress to Save School Lunch!  Sign the petition of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.  Lawmakers and the school lunch industry claim that schools can't serve healthy food.   Yet 95 percent of school districts are certified as meeting updated, healthier school lunch standards.  Those schools that are still struggling to serve healthier school meals need help so that they can meet the nutrition standards, not a free pass to serve salty, unhealthy food to school kids. Ask your congressional representative to support healthy meals, schools, and kids by opposing efforts to roll back the latest school nutrition standards.