Waikiki is not only a tropical paradise, but also a shopping paradise — for budgets big and small, there is something for everyone. For luxury lovers, it’s a shopping Mecca, offering up all the designer brands from Prada to Chanel and Louis Vuitton to Tiffany & Co., just stroll down Kalakaua Ave or wander through the five-star resort lobbies to see them all.
If you’re up for a day of serious shopping, head to the the Ala Moana Centre, an open-air mall that has it all from fashion, homewares, electronics, and souvenirs, to handmade Hawaiian gifts and a huge food court. All the major international luxury designer brands are here as well.
For a fast fashion fix, the major chain stores that we don’t get in Australia are perfect. Check out Abercrombie & Fitch, the Gap, Hollister and Banana Republic. Macy’s Department store has a great mix of affordable brands, while Neiman Marcus carries a huge range of designer brands under one roof. Some of our favorite fashion stores were BCBG Max Azria and Diesel.
On the beauty front, go to Sephora and Long’s Drugs for a huge selection of products that you just can’t find at home.
If you’re shopping on a budget, stroll through the International Market Place in the heart of Waikiki — it’s open till late and is the place to go for souvenirs, aloha shirts, sarongs, shell jewellery, leis, knick-knacks, and a cheap meal. We love the Hawaiian nut necklaces, they make great gifts!
For all your daily holidaying needs, the ABC discount stores are on (almost) every corner. They are more than just a convenience store stocking basic food supplies, sliced fresh fruit, water, sunscreen, souvenirs, laundry powder, thongs, beach mats, alcohol and sundries.
Not enough hours in the day to fit it all in? Not a problem, the main shopping strip in downtown Waikiki is buzzing with people until 11pm, making sure you have enough time to laze on the beach during the day, drink Mai Tai’s at sunset and shop well into the night!
Travel essentials
+ Oahu-Waikiki Shoppers Paradise: four days/three nights from $299 per person.
Discover the best shopping in town by visiting the Waikele Premium Outlets, Hawaii’s only outlet centre. Enjoy great savings on many of the finest brands, including Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Gucci. Shop till you drop with an all-day Trolley Pass taking you to Ala Moana Center, Ward Warehouse and more. Mini-stay includes fresh flower lei greeting, return seat in coach transfers, three nights’ accommodation (including local taxes) Waikele Premium Outlets Tour, all-day Trolley Pass, tour of Maui Divers’ Jewellery Design Center and an island orientation briefing on your first morning in Waikiki.
+ Introduction to Hawaii, the Big Island: four days/two nights from $339 per person.
Hawaii, the Big Island, is twice the size of the other Hawaiian Islands combined. Here you can get up close to Kilauea, Hawaii’s active volcano, or visit the Hamakua Coast, filled with cascading waterfalls. Visit the historic sites of Kailua-Kona, or choose from any number of beaches along the 430km of coastline. This mini-stay package includes return seat in coach transfers, two nights’ accommodation (including local taxes) and a Grand Circle Island Tour.
Fly
Hawaiian Airlines (tel: 02 9244 2377; www.hawaiianairlines.com) flies from Sydney to Honolulu three times a week, with return low-season fares from $899 (exclusive of taxes and fees).
Jetstar (www.jetstar.com) flies to Honolulu from Sydney on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and from Melbourne on Monday and Friday, from $579 one way and $599 one way, respectively (includes surcharges, fees and taxes).
Qantas (tel: 13 13 13; www.qantas.com) flies to Honolulu on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday from $1288 return, inclusive.
We are thrilled to be On the Road with the Today show and the Commonwealth Bank — after all, our food comes from regional Australia, and that’s what we deal with all day and every day in The Australian Women’s Weekly food department. Throughout the year, we’ll find out what’s special about the towns and regions we visit (including what they grow best) and each month we’ll develop a Road Train recipe based on what we find.
Along the way, we’ll also be demonstrating from our world famous cookbooks and collecting YOUR recipes along the way. What a year we have ahead.
See you on the road.
Lyndey Milan
Food Director
The Australian Women’s Weekly
[Photo (left to right): Deputy Food Editor Fran Abdallaoui, Food Director Lyndey Milan, Food Editor Alex Elliot]
The recipes
The following recipes will be be prepared by The Weekly’s Test Kitchen from October 24th to November 8th at the On the Road stops in Armidale, Port Macquarie, Singleton, Maitland, The Entrance, Newcastle and lots of places in between!
Avocado and roasted capsicum salad with prawnsThe following recipes were be be prepared by The Weekly’s Test Kitchen from September 26th to October 23rd at the On the Road stops in Gladstone, Bundaberg, Noose Heads, Ipswich, Coffs Harbour, Ballina and lots of places in between
Fettuccine with roasted pumpkin and pancettaThe following recipes were prepared by The Weekly’s Test Kitchen from August 22 to Septemer 25 at the On the Road stops in Port Douglas, Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Noosa Heads and lots of places in between
The following recipes were be be prepared by The Weekly’s Test Kitchen from September 26th to October 23rd at the On the Road stops in Gladstone, Bundaberg, Noose Heads, Ipswich, Coffs Harbour, Ballina and lots of places in between!
Fettuccine with roasted pumpkin and pancettaThe following recipes were prepared by The Weekly’s Test Kitchen from August 22 to Septemer 25 at the On the Road stops in Port Douglas, Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Noosa Heads and lots of places in between
The following recipes were prepared by The Weekly’s Test Kitchen from August 22 to Septemer 25 at the On the Road stops in Port Douglas, Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Noosa Heads and lots of places in between!
The following recipe was prepared by Lyndey Milan in Cairns from products sourced locally on Friday, August 31.
Red emperor and nam jim and coconut rice.The following recipe was prepared by Lyndey Milan in Innisfail on Saturday, September 1.Prawn bisque.The following recipes were prepared by The Weekly’s Test Kitchen from July 24 to August 21 at the On the Road stops in Darwin, Mount Isa, Longreach and Emerald:Creamy mustard thyme chicken
The following recipe was prepared by Lyndey Milan in Innisfail on Saturday, September 1.
Prawn bisque.The following recipes were prepared by The Weekly’s Test Kitchen from July 24 to August 21 at the On the Road stops in Darwin, Mount Isa, Longreach and Emerald:Creamy mustard thyme chicken
The following recipes were prepared by The Weekly’s Test Kitchen from July 24 to August 21 at the On the Road stops in Darwin, Mount Isa, Longreach and Emerald:
The following recipes were prepared by The Weekly’s Test Kitchen from July 1 to July 21 at the On the Road stops in Mandurah, Northam, Geraldton, Carnarvon, Karratha, Port Hedland, Broome, Kununurra, and Katherine:
The following recipes were prepared by The Weekly’s Test Kitchen from May 23 to June 27 at the On the Road stops in Victor Harbour, Barossa, Clare, Berri, Mildura, Broken Hill, Port Pirie, Port Augusta, Whyalla Port, Lincoln, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Esperance, Albany, Manjimup, Bridgetown, and Margaret River:
These recipes were cooked on the road by Lyndey Milan with product entirely sourced minutes before so they have not gone through the usual Test Kitchen process. The idea was to use what was on hand and show the audience how such products could be used immediately and without hours of preparation. We salute all the farmers who manage to keep producing despite the drought. Thank you for our food!
From April 26 to May 22 at the Road Train stops in Warragul, Healesville, Mornington, Geelong, Apollo Bay and Warrnambool in Victoria, Hobart and Launceston in Tasmania, and Mount Gambier and Murray Bridge in South Australia, the Test Kitchen prepared the following recipes:
From March 28 to April 24, we prepared the following recipes at the Road Train stops in Wodonga, Wangaratta, Swan Hill, Bendigo, Ballarat, and Sale in Victoria:
From February 20 to March 24, the following recipes were prepared at the Road Train stops in NSW at Hay, Griffith, Leeton, Wagga Wagga, Tumut, Goulburn, Moss Vale, Wollongong, Ulladulla, Nowra, and Albury, and Canberra in the ACT and Wodonga in Victoria:
From January 24 to February 20 at the Road Train stops in Tamworth, Gunnedah, Moree, Bourke, Dubbo, Mudgee, Bathurst, Orange, Parkes, Condobolin, Cootamundra, and Young, NSW, the following recipes were prepared by the food team on stage:
Deborah Thomas — Editorial Director, The Australian Women’s Weekly
After completing a degree in Fine Arts at Caulfield Institute (now Monash University), Deborah turned to full-time modeling where her first stop was Paris in 1978 and a regular job modeling haute couture fashion for Givenchy.
Upon her return to Australia in 1981, Deborah was offered a position at NIDA to study theatre design. While at NIDA she was contacted to take up the position as Head of Graphics for Crawford Productions.
In 1985, a move to Sydney meant a change in direction. Her first job was as an art director/copy writer with a small fashion-advertising agency, Cation Creative Direction.
While working in advertising, Deborah was offered the job of Beauty and Lifestyle Editor at Cleo (May 1987). Three years later (May 1990) she was promoted to deputy editor.
In August 1992, Deborah took on the editorship of Mode. The first issue (October/November) immediately reflected Deborah’s style and was a sellout.
In August 1994, she became editor of Elle Australia and consolidated the magazine’s position through a frenzied period of rival magazine launches.
In July 1997, Deborah was appointed editor of Cleo. During this period the magazine experienced three consecutive circulation increases and two readership increases (June 1998-July 1999).
In September 1999, she was appointed editor of The Australian Women’s Weekly, Australia’s highest-selling magazine and a national icon. In July 2001, The Weekly announced its first circulation increase in four years.
In May 2002, The Weekly scooped the pool at the Magazine Publisher’s of Australia Awards (the magazine equivalent of the Oscars). The awards included Magazine of the Year 2002, General Excellence (News and General Interest) and two advertising awards. Deborah also received the highest accolade, Editor of the Year.
In March 2004, she was appointed editor-in-chief of The Australian Women’s Weekly magazine and books divisions. In March 2005, she was promoted to editorial director responsible for all aspects of this iconic brand.
Outside work, Deborah is wife to Vitek and mother to four-year-old Oscar and is actively involved in many community fundraising projects.
THE FOOD TEAM
Food Director of The Australian Women’s Weekly, she is co-host of Fresh, daily on the Nine Network and appears on Mornings with Kerri-Anne every Friday. She has written for innumerable publications on food and wine, and hosted Internet chat shows. Her unflagging energy sees her on the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, past president of both The Food Media Club Australia and the NSW Wine Press Club and member of the Tourism NSW Food and Wine Advisory Committee. In 1995, she was awarded the inaugural Restaurant and Caterer’s Association Award for Excellence for Outstanding Contribution to Food Media Journalism, was a finalist in 1996 and won again in 1997. In 1998 she became a judge.
A lecturer in wine appreciation, cooking demonstrator and hospitality lecturer, her particular field of expertise is in the matching of food and wine. Her book Balance. Matching Food and Wine. What Works and Why which she co-authored with wine educator Colin Corney (Lothian) won Best Food and Wine Writing at the Vittoria Australian Food Media Awards in 2006. An inspector for The Good Food Guide since 1987, she previously authored four best-selling cookbooks, including Flavours, A Fresh Approach (New Holland), an innovative guide to food and wine matching.
Alexandra Elliott — Food Editor
Alex has been with The Weekly for more than 17 years. She began in the Test Kitchen in 1989, became the assistant food editor in 1993, and then food editor in 1999. Alex’s role as food editor involves overseeing and organising the food section of the magazine, from brainstorming ideas to writing briefs for the Test Kitchen’s recipe developers and from tasting each recipe to editing them for print.
Alex has made regular TV appearances and radio interviews and has been a member of judging panels for The Grand Dairy Awards, The Royal Agricultural Society Cheese Show and some recipe competitions as well. Her passion for food has taken her around the world and she has also undertaken professional development in olive oil tasting, cheese judging, coffee and overseas cooking schools. In 2001, she travelled with a photographer capturing the food of Greece for a food guide book. With attention to detail her hallmark, she was a key part of the award-winning food team honoured in the World Food Media Awards in 2001 and The Vittoria Food Media Awards in 2003.
Alex married Tom, a widower, in July 2005 and is now a busy stepmum to four children.
Fran Abdallaoui — Deputy Food Editor
Fran has extensive experience in the food publishing and hospitality industries. She holds a degree in Home Economics, and began her career freelancing for several food writers before working as a home economist in The Weekly’s Test Kitchen and as an assistant food editor for ACP books. Fran joined The Australian Women’s Weekly magazine team in 1999 as deputy food editor, where she prepares the recipes for photography. When not shooting, Fran is researching feature ideas, writing and editing recipes, tasting and testing to ensure the recipes are relevant and appealing to The Weekly’s readers. Fran has a wide and varied knowledge of many cultures and cuisines as she has experienced the food first hand travelling to many parts of Europe and North Africa where many of her relatives reside.
Fran has also owned and operated several successful businesses: a café, a catering business and more recently a restaurant. Fran is married to Jamal and has two children.
Pamela Clark — Test Kitchen Director
Pamela’s first venture into cooking as a career occurred in 1962 when she joined a public utility company (St George County Council) where she trained “on the job” as a cookery demonstrator and teacher.
In 1969, Pamela was offered the position of chief home economist in The Australian Women’s Weekly Test Kitchen. The Australian Women’s Weekly, at that time, had the largest circulation, per capita, of any the world’s lifestyle magazines. During her four-year tenure, she was involved in the production of nine cookbooks in addition to The Australian Women’s Weekly Original Cookbook, which became the first Australian cookbook to sell overseas rights. Pamela was also responsible for the Test Kitchen’s operations, organising testing and photography for all the food features that appeared in The Australian Women’s Weekly.
Pamela moved to Tasmania in 1973 (a move which necessitated her resignation from The Australian Women’s Weekly) to work as the presenter on two local television programs and a radio program, all food related. She also taught Adult Education food classes and was involved in the organisation, opening and running of a restaurant in a new hotel in Hobart.
Asked to return to The Australian Women’s Weekly Test Kitchen in 1978, again as chief home economist, Pamela was instrumental in the production of The Golden Cooking Library, Cookery Cards, AWW Home Library Cookbooks and recipes for The Weekly.
In 1984, Pamela became food editor for The Australian Women’s Weekly and its AWW Home Library Cookbook offshoot, then in 1999 was appointed AWW Test Kitchen Director. During this period of time, she has written and/or edited more than 100 cookbooks (a dozen more of which are in production at present), and appeared on a regular basis on Channel 9’s What’s Cooking? for five years during the 1990s. Today finds her writing and featuring in the station’s Short Cuts food segments; overseeing the Test Kitchen’s operations (which include both a separate catering division for Australian Consolidated Press and the company’s executive dining room); and, with an office staff of four and a Test Kitchen comprising eight home economists and chefs, continuing to produce and edit material for all AWW cookbooks.
FASHION AND BEAUTY
As the executive style director, Jane creates many of the concepts and visual imagery for the covers, celebrity features, fashion and beauty in the magazine. Her countless photographic shoots, with Australia’s top photographers, have portrayed many of Australia’s most beautiful, influential and successful women.
Jane is one of Australia’s leading fashion commentators and for many years in her previous roles as fashion editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and more recently as editor-at-large at Harper’s Bazaar, she reported on the International and Australian fashion collections.
Jane has curated major fashion exhibitions, as well as lectured on fashion and design history. The exhibitions Jane has curated include Art Knits for the Bicentennial shown at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and regional galleries and then in Tokyo and Seoul (1988-1989); Australian Fashion: The Contemporary Art which was shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Powerhouse Museum and then in Tokyo (1989-1991) and Christian Dior: The Magic of Fashion for the Powerhouse Museum (1994).
Kate Mahon — Beauty Director
Kate Mahon has more than 25 years experience in the media, beginning with a career as a newspaper reporter before entering the magazine world.
She has worked as a writer and sub-editor on such publications as Cosmopolitan, SHE, House and Garden, Practical Parenting and The Sunday Telegraph and freelanced for titles including Cleo, Elle, Good Medicine, The Sun-Herald, Good Taste, Slimming Australia, Wish and New Idea.
From 1998 to 2001, Kate was editor of SHE and SHE’s Having a Baby.
Following this appointment, she taught and co-ordinated the News Media program at TAFE, St George.
Before joining The Weekly, she was employed as beauty editor at New Idea.
Kate’s interest in beauty is longstanding. To further her knowledge in this area, she completed a Diploma of Beauty Therapy in 1992, accredited with the Advanced Association of Beauty Therapists (AABTh), and the internationally-renowned Comité International D’Esthétique et de Cosmétologie (CIDESCO) in 1993.
HEALTH
Helen has also been a member on a number of key national cancer and health committees and was recently appointed a member to the National Health Committee of the NHMRC for the triennium 2006-2009. Helen was also named a finalist in the 2006 Telstra Business Women’s Awards.
In addition, Helen is also a practicing breast physician and has a staff specialist appointment at the Rachel Foster Breast Clinic, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney.
The National Breast Cancer Centre will be on board the Road Train providing potentially life-saving health information that every woman should know. Free information sessions will be held across the country empowering women to be proactive about their breast and ovarian health — to know the symptoms to look out for and to see their GP promptly if they find a new or unusual change in their body.
If you’ve always wanted to know more about animals, Bindi Irwin is the little girl to ask. Each month, Bindi will write about a different animal and answer readers’ questions in the magazine.
In the February issue of The Weekly, she tells us all about a precious Australian, the koala.
Pick up a copy of the February issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly to read more about koalas and see below for information on how to ask Bindi your most pressing wildlife questions.
Question
Why do koalas sleep so much?
Nev Zuvelek,
Melbourne, Vic.
Answer
Koalas sleep so much because the eucalyptus leaves that they eat don’t provide a lot of energy, so they have to conserve their energy.
Got a question for Bindi? Send it to Ask Bindi, The Australian Women’s Weekly, GPO Box 4178, Sydney NSW 2001 or send an e-mail to [email protected].
“Who Needs a rubber duckie when you have Daffy!” This is a picture of our (female) pet duck Daffy who, on a hot day, enjoys a nice cool bath!
— Susan
This is picture of my beautiful boy Zaccy, always loyal and waiting by the door!
— Amanda
Here is my Westie, Bonnie, sunning herself in the backyard, her favourite place and, taking a rest on the deck!
— Peta
This is my Alaskan Malamute “Wolf”. He’s a very sunsmart dog, likes to wear his ‘shades’ during the hot weather in Mildura. He is very loved and very spoilt, he even gets an aromatherapy bath from ‘Aussie Pooch’ once a month.
— Sharon
Our 13 month old cat Loui Vitton. He looks pretty smug as though he had just killed the vacuum cleaner. He’s an RSPCA survivor and we spoil him lots.
— Katherine
This is Symo our puppy who is cheeky, but always with a smile.
The children in my household thought you might like this picture of our very spoilt pets. Beauty is 2½ years old, Juddy is 1 year old and Gispie-Lee is 3 months old.
— Noelene
Kiewa is a very playful Jack Russell who has heaps of character and loves to run amok whenever she can.
— Proud owner, Samantha
Personality plus! Worse than a two-year-old kid. Rahni — 7-year-old Indian Ringneck.
My mother’s dog Cindy eats apples and my cat Darcy eats strawberries. Are they both mad or is this normal?
— Lynne
Answer
While fruit may not be considered a common dining delicacy for dogs and cats, it’s far from being the worst thing they could be sampling. Fruit is high in energy, vitamins and fibre so from that viewpoint it may actually be doing them some good. In fact, with recent research showing that green leafy vegetables are of benefit to your dog’s health, it’s possible that fruit may not be too far behind in delivering good health to your pet.
Make it an occasional treat rather than a staple food and look out for any signs of a gut upset that may indicate your pet is having too much. Just remember not to offer your dog grapes, there is now growing evidence that grapes may be toxic to dogs when eaten in large numbers.
Whenever I apply creamy eye shadow on my eyelid, it gets smudged after half an hour or an hour. I have tried base and everything, even a very expensive eye shadow serum which claimed to keep shimmery shadow but it just didn’t work for me. Please help me to solve this problem. I want to make it last for at least for 3 or 4 hours.
— Sha
Answer
Applying cream or shimmer to the eyelid can be tricky as you are continually blinking. The best suggestion I can make is to focus on applying your cream or shimmer eye shadow to the centre of the eye lid over a powder eye shadow in the same colour and apply a lighter shimmer just under the brow bone. This way you have an up-to-date eye look without the creases.
Help! My jewellery collection is getting out of control and is becoming a tangled mess. How can I keep it organised and visible?
— Sam, NSW.
Answer
The Icebirg Jewellery Hanger is the perfect storage solution! Hang it inside your cupboard door so it won’t take up any shelf space, and store your earrings, bracelets, necklaces, scarfs, belts and sunglasses. Its clear acrylic finish will appear invisible against your favourite pieces, so you’ll be able to see what you want, clearly, at all times. It holds up to 50 pairs of earrings and up to 50 bracelets and necklaces. Create your own personal shop! RRP $59.95. www.icebirg.com.au or call 0417 426 706.
Jessica Rowe is settling into motherhood after the birth of her daughter Allegra Penelope on Thursday night in Sydney.
The Today host and her husband Peter Overton are delighted with their long-awaited first child who was conceived after four IVF attempts.
“Each day brings new discoveries about our precious little daughter,” says new mum Jessica. “The feeling of being parents is overwhelming.”
The couple chose the name Allegra — which means ‘joyful’ in Italian — because Peter had been filming for 60 Minutes in Italy when Jessica called to tell him she’d fallen pregnant.
Jessica and Peter are taking some time out from their busy schedules to enjoy parenthood and get to know their daughter.
“We are overjoyed by the arrival of our little miracle Allegra Penelope Overton,” says the proud new mum. “It was the happiest day of our lives and we feel blessed to be a family.”
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