Sunset Magazine
March 1, 2018
Article by Jen Murphy
Photo by Erin Kunkel
The rustic up-country towns of her youth—Makawao, Haiku, and Kula—were attracting a new generation of makers, organic farmers, and designers. So Robson created Feast Hawaii to bring them together onto one stage four times a year. Among them are Waikapu calligrapher Alannah Andersen, who writes the menus, and Hana’s Karina Subijana, of Altar Ceramics, who hand-throws clay laced with iron to create speckled plates. “When people think of Maui, they think of the beach,” says Robson. “But away from the touristy coast, there is this wonderful community living in the mountains and on farms. It’s a slow, reverent lifestyle I want to share.”