A priority of the University of Hawaiʻi’s Pacific Business Center Program ( PCBP ) is expanding awareness of the economic and health benefits of breadfruit. The center’s Pacific Regional Breadfruit Initiative, to advance the processing, refinement and export of ʻulu (breadfruit), won a top award from the University Economic Development Association in 2014.

PCBP Director Failautusi Avegalio says he was thrilled when a chef from the Virgin Islands recently presented him with a new breadfruit product, a vodka named Mutiny. According to Avegalio, demand for the nascent liquor along the U.S. eastern seaboard is up to 70,000 bottles. He says new dehydration technology in American Samoa is also consistently producing quality breadfruit flour, which is gluten-free and has a low glycemic index.

“Commercialization of ʻulu on an industrial scale forgets internalized and it ruins them.

David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was found dead in his California home on Friday ...

His opus, "Infinite Jest," published by Little, Brown & Company in 1996 ... is, roughly, about addiction and how the need for pleasure and entertainment can interfere with human connection. ...

Michael Pietsch, who edited "Infinite Jest," said Saturday night that the literary world had lost one of its great talents.

"He had a mind that was constantly working on more cylinders than most people, but he was amazingly gentle and kind," Mr. Pietsch said. "He was a writer who other writers looked to with awe." ...

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