Honolulu's Kids,Shut-Ins and Thehospital Bound? ° Learnthat Leesiegel Will Not Be Writ 15 /O Off Ing Your Food Column Any Longer
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... Indecent PriWhett Sushi Secret Proposal9 6 is Volume 3, Number 15, April 14, 1993 I I Behind the riots, two decades of social distortion l ) Bou TwinMoons Letters In praise ofSiegel 1 the people who aren't able or can't BookShop I am indeed very disappointed to affordto eat out? What about school Honolulu's kids,shut-ins and thehospital bound? ° learnthat LeeSiegel will not be writ 15 /o Off ing your food column any longer. I Siegel wrote about these folks and always looked forward to reading told us that a foodcolumn can actu Siegel's column in the Weekly ally be about foodand about life and Children's Hardest not restaurant reviews. What a won because I liked his humor and off ....__ beat approach to the whole concept derfulidea, perfectlyexecuted. Why Books -'y ____., of the"food review."Indeed, the rea in the world would you want to son why I read the Weekly at all is squelch it? Do you trulythink your April 14th-30th Wor�ng because it offers a different per readersare more interested in thebaby spective and is a heck of a lot more rack of lamb at Matteo's? Free pair of Twin Moons milk caps with a $5 interestingto read than the Honolulu Lolly Winston Star-Bulletin and the Honolulu or more purchase. Advertiser.lfl wanted a boring"food In the last week, we've received a Ads large number of letters lamenting the HarwluluWeekly. review," I would have turned to the TWIN MOONS BOOK SHOP are in the foodsections thosein other twonews departure of Lee Siegel as the Manoa Marketplace 988 • 7065 Wednesday to Wednesday, papers. What I like(d) about Siegel's Weekly'sfood critic. A word of expla Eight days a week! column is (was) his originality, and, nation: when, last October, we adver although I look forwardto his ''touch tised for a food critic/restaurant in the occasional featurestory," I am reviewer, Siegel miraculously saddened to see him go. appeared on the editorial horizon. VACATIONS-HAWAII, INC. Kimberlee Akimoto Lee never failed to delight us with Your ticketto the World. his wit and creativity but, as time Of In praise of Siegel 2 went on, it becameclear thathis inter 524-4711 Pooh! Lee Siegel's foodcolumn will est was in writing on the nature of D] 1314So. KingWSuite 1062 be sorely missed. As an outstanding food, not in reviewing restaurants, (TA180) [8 and I decided that it would be nec alternativenews paper, isn't it the 13 day European essary to add another column that AmericanAirlines AIR SPECIALS EscortedCruise Course l#!ekly'sjob to offerits readerswords would review restaurants every other 3Night f:>ackages Los Angeles Sept.1993 of substancethey can't get fromother $229 publications? Siegel taught us that week. Unfortunately, Siegel chose San Francisco 10 Portsfrom not to writea biweekly foodcolumn; Las Vegas $229 London to Venice foodis about much more than eating or Reno Seattle we look forward to featuring peri $439 $249 from perperson HonoJU}u out; it's about much more than haute Vancouver $364 $3421 cuisine, sauces, spirits,spices and hip odicpieces of his writingin thefuture. San Francisco or Book by May 1st - Laurie Carlson, publisher Includes Airfare ethnic eateries. His reveiws were Disneyland It's up to you $489 funny, informative, touching and Orlando New York MAUI superbly written.He brought some Honolulu Weekly welcomes your $869 Weekly letters. Write to: Editor, Honolulu KAUAI thingto his column that we've never Tahoe Escorted Tour KONA Weekly, 1200 College Walk, Suite $519 August 1993 found in food columns before - 2 nights pacages meaning. Siegel's column made sense. 212, Honolulu, HI 96817. You must include your name, address Packages based on ExperienceBroadway, Museums Air/Room/Car During these tough financialtimes, Double Occupancy. and Shopping from and ( only your Some restrictions. in a town where the cost of living is telephone number from Prices subject to change. per person $146 520-na5 exorbitant,it doesn'tmake that much name will be printed). Letters may $1299 sense to eat out. And what about all be edited for length. • HONOLULU Vol. 3, No. 15 April 14, 1993 Publisher and Managing Editor Laurie V. 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