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Week of Friday, March 27, 2015 | Vol. 3, No. 13

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PASTOR & PIZZA BOOK REVIEW • ‘TALES OF TOLSTOY’ • HOEDOWN FOR HOPE Island Calendar and much, much more!

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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT: Top picks for the week

3. BOOK REVIEW:

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRI SAT SUN ORCHID SHOW NOON TO 7 P.M. UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Orchid plants, crafts and food for sale.

‘The Imaginary’

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PRINCE KUHIO LUAU 5 P.M. KOLOA LANDING Prince Kuhio Celebration hosted by Kawaikini NCPCS. There will be live performances, Hawaiian food, nohost bar, silent auction and more. $60 adults, $25 keiki ‘TALES OF TOLSTOY’ 7 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Kauai Christian Fellowship presents ‘Tales of Tolstoy,’ a one man show with Bruce Kuhn. $20, 639-6146 GROVE FARM GAMES 10 A.M. TO 4 P.M. GROVE FARM MUSEUM Games of skill, potato sack race, pie-eating contest, petting zoo, puppet shows, food and more. $2 entry fee, $8 for family of 4 or more.

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NUTRITIONAL PROGRAM 7 P.M. Short film followed by samples, talk with certified-nutritional adviser Jane Riley. Free. Ongoing event, call for location. 212-1451 QIDANCE AND QIFORCE 4 TO 6 P.M. KAPAA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER New dance fitness and functional fitness workout classes. QiDance 4 to 5 p.m. and QiForze 5 to 6 p.m.

‘PRODIGAL FATHER’ 7 P.M. PUHI THEATRICAL PLAYHOUSE Kauai Community Players present “Prodigal Father.”

A light-hearted comedy about sailor/novelist father who locates his son whom he hasn’t seen in years.

The play treats in hilarious fashion the inability of some men to express their love. $20 advance, $22 door.

KAUAI ART TOUR 11 A.M. TO 5 P.M. KAUAI SOCIETY OF ARTISTS GALLERY, KUKUI GROVE CENTER View examples of each participating artist’s work at the preview exhibit.

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Book review: ‘The Imaginary’

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esterday afternoon, you spent some time wrestling alligators.

Someone had to! Wild animals can be dangerous in your neighborhood and besides, those snapping jaws were making it hard to find dinosaur bones.

Isn’t pretending fun? You can be anyone, anywhere — all you have to do is think it.

And in the new book “The Imaginary” by A.F. Harrold, illustrated by Emily Gravett, even adults pretend, although that’s not always good.

Amanda Shuffleup wasn’t the least bit ruffled to find a boy in her closet. She was more worried about getting caught tracking mud across her mother’s carpet, or maybe the boy did it. Strangely, Mrs. Shuffleup didn’t seem to notice him; she didn’t say anything about him, so Amanda didn’t, either. And that was how Amanda met Rudger.

Before he woke up in Amanda’s wardrobe, Rudger had no recollection of anything but he somehow knew he was where he was supposed to be. He immediately liked Amanda, and it quickly became obvious that she was the only one who could see him — which was just fine. He was apparently meant to be her friend only and he “rather liked that.”

Oh, the adventures they had! Rudger thought Amanda had to be the best imaginer ever! That summer, they went to the moon, hiked through jungle and desert, and built an igloo without even leaving Amanda’s back yard. But on the day they were spelunking near the front door, real danger appeared.

The man was round, with a

bushy mustache and he told Amanda’s mother that his name was Mr. Bunting, that he was doing a survey. But he wasn’t alone. With him was a silent, creepy girl that Mrs. Shuffleup couldn’t see.

At first, Rudger liked the idea that he wasn’t the only imaginary friend in the world.

But then Mr. Bunting’s creepy

totally Faded. That was a good sign, so maybe she wasn’t.

Either way, there was no time to waste. Rudger needed to find Amanda before Mr. Bunting did!

What was the name of your imaginary friend? If you don’t remember, maybe you’re not supposed to — though you’ll be sad if you can’t, after you’ve read “The Imaginary.”

In the spirit of so many childhood classics, author A.F. Harrold and illustrator Emily Gravett invite us into a world that adults usually can’t see (or that they try to manipulate).

It’s a world filled with innocence, the love of a friend, danger and frights, and wistful loyalty that’s heartbreakingly sweet; a world where everyTERRI SCHLICHENMEYER thing’s possible — as long as SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY you’re a kid.

So, yes, this is a book girl showed up one dark night and she attacked him! Rudger for 9- to 12-year-olds but managed to escape but a few definitely, it’s for adults, too. I days later, near the swimming highly recommend it, in fact, as a perfect read-aloud. “The pool, Mr. Bunting almost got Imaginary” is a story I imagine him again … and Amanda you’ll both like very well. was hurt. rrr This was not pretend.

Rudger was sure Amanda was Terri Schlichenmeyer is owner of The Bookworm Sez, LLC, Ladead.

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Then again, he wasn’t

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A slice of heaven Pastor Tom Iannucci returns from four-week in Italy, plans to open pizzeria

T

om Iannucci is a pastor on Kauai. He’s been a police commissioner here. He’s an ex-Marine. He’s a voice on the radio. He’s a husband and father of three.

All of that meant nothing when he went to school in Naples, Italy, for four weeks to study the craft of traditional Neapolitan brick oven pizza.

In fact, he got yelled at.

Almost every day. For a tough Italian who’s not used to being pushed around, he took it in stride and kept coming back the next day for more.

Not that he liked it. “I felt like an eighth-grader being scolded,� Iannucci said. “Do it wrong, you get yelled

at. You have to do it right.

They demand perfection. “They could care less who I was, where I was from, who I knew or what I knew, what I do. As far as they’re concerned, I start at ground zero.

I’ll earn any respect I get.�

So he did.

By the end, the 53-year-old had begrudgingly earned their respect and got what he came for — to learn how to make the best pizza in the world. “I learned the old school traditional way of making this pizza,� Iannucci said.

The “Pizzaiolo� is back with plans to open his own pizzeria on Kauai. He’s searching for

the right location, hopefully between Eleele, where he lives, and Lihue, with hopes for an opening later this year.

He plans to have a brick oven made in Naples shipped to Kauai. “We want to bring something special to Kauai, something traditional, something unique, fresh and light, at a reasonable price,� he said. “My passion is to try and bring forth this traditional artisan Italian pizza to Kauai. What we want to do is bring something of quality and of the Italian culture to Kauai. Maybe eventually add a traditional New York-style as well.�

When it happens, it will ful-

fill a lifelong dream that started back when he was a kid growing up in New York and was raised eating that famous New York pizza made from scratch. When he later left New York and ventured out in the world, he discovered one thing that disappointed him: Not all pizza was as good as that from the Big Apple. “You’re raised on this your whole life,� he said. “You take it for granted. I left New York, I couldn’t leave the pizza.�

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Spain, France and Germany.

He’s had pizza in 18 states, testing and trying out pizza all in hopes of finding that pizza style he grew up with.

Still, he never could quite find what he was after. So in 1990, he began making his own. He practiced. He experimented. He learned.

“You can’t find it, you make your own,” he said. “It’s become a passion for me. I’ve learned how to make something I love.”

He studied. He read industry publications about pizza.

He trained in New York. He trained in Rome. He attended pizza expos. (In fact, he’s at one this week in Las Vegas).

He learned about dough

and sauces and cheeses and toppings. He learned about baking pizza. He analyzed fermentation times, crust structure, dough properties and various recipes and techniques.

He never tires of good pizza.

“I’m like a pizza nerd. I sit there at night and study things like gluten structures, hydration percentages, different styles and recipes and watch videos of various known pizza makers speaking and working at their craft,” he said.

In his 22 years on Kauai, he estimates he’s made and given away hundreds of pizzas he made at home. Family, friends of his children, neigh-

bors, church members, visiting ministers, firefighters, all have been on the receiving end of an Iannucci pie.

“Over the years I began to hone the skills,” said Iannucci, who is pastor of Breath of Life church in Lihue, which he started with wife D’Lissa in 1995. “I had three kids and a church to practice on.”

Using fire bricks from the old Lihue mill, he even built his own wood-fired, brick oven — an essential for great pizza — in the driveway of his Eleele home.

People over the years have asked him: When are you going to open a pizza shop?

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Pizza Continued from page 5

time was right.

Backed by friend and business partner Dave Erickson, they began planning to open one on Kauai. But first, they decided Tom should go back to school and learn about pizza from the very best. That meant a trip to Italy, the birthplace of pizza, where Enzo Cocci operates a pizzeria in Naples called La Notizia and conducts a training program. It’s known as a demanding, but outstanding Neapolitan, pizza school. “If you want to learn how to make sushi, you go to Tokyo,�

Iannucci said. “If you really want to learn about pizza, you go to Naples, I wanted to immerse myself not only in the pizza, but in the pizza culture and the people.�

Through the classes and his time working in the pizzeria, Iannucci discovered that Italians have little regard for pizza in America. “They kind of look down upon American pizza,� he said.

So he had to start over. He checked his pride at the door.

Forget what he thought he knew about pizza and listen to what he was told. “A lot of myths were broken when I got there,� he said.

The very foundation of great pizza doesn’t start with the sauce or the cheese or the topping. “The key thing is how they make their dough and how they are very concerned about keeping it light and digestible,� he said. “That’s the foundation of Neapolitan pizza, it’s all about your dough. The dough, the formation and composition of your dough, is the base you start from.�

That’s why they spent a week learning how to hand mix dough, 40 minutes for each batch, no mixer. It got to the point where their knuckles were raw from pushing down the dough again and again. “There has to be so much air pushed into the dough because the crust has to light and airy, thin,� he said. “They really believe you should be able to taste crust,

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L Tom Iannucci with Idowu Kuye of London, the only other student in the four-week pizza program, Enzo Coccia and Davide Bruno.

the oil, the sauce, the tomato, the topping.�

Try as he might, Iannucci made mistakes, and it was noticed. Didn’t put the pizza in the oven quite right. Dough not prepared properly. Yep, he got yelled at. There were times he was tempted to revert to his rough and tumble days.

But he kept his head down, his mouth shut, and kept moving ahead, striving for the perfec-

tion they demanded.

At the end, they smiled, shook his hand and he graduated as a certified Pizzaiolo.

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He said La Notizia serves about 2,300 pizzas a week and about 700 pizzas on a Friday or Saturday night. “That’s how good those guys are. Their whole thing is quality and, you need to think like a customer. What would they expect, what would you expect.�

Iannucci said he can preach from the pulpit and operate a pizzeria. He notes the Apostle Paul made tents and preached.

Jesus was a carpenter. In his first six years after starting Breath of Life, he held down a full-time job. “It’s something a lot of pastors do, work two jobs, and I have a great staff that stands behind me,� he said.

He plans to continue pastoring, but will hand over a few duties to others. “I’ll concentrate on teaching the word of God,� he said. “The ministry will continue. It’s just shifting locations.�

And he believes the pizzeria will be a way to bless people.

In the end, he said, God gets all the glory. “I want to represent God through the business,� he said. “That’s the most important thing.�

eo Tolstoy is considered the greatest authors to come out of Russia.

Broadway actor Bruce Kuhn discovered a treasure trove of material in Tolstoy’s short stories that Tolstoy he converted to a one-man play that transforms him into a perfect image of the blustering author himself. “Tales of Tolstoy� will be performed by Kuhn at the Kauai Community Performing Arts Theater in Lihue at 7 p.m. Saturday.

Mixing moments of comedy with the retelling of many of Tolstoy’s stories, Kuhn’s Russian accented rendition makes the author come vividly alive 100 years after his death and brings a rich body of his work within easy grasp of those for whom the name Leo Tolstoy produces a blank look.

Kuhn, who makes his home in Holland, has a rich pedigree in theater, including performing on Broadway in “Les MisĂŠrables.â€?

Tickets are $20 and are available in advance at Scotty’s Music, Kauai Music and Sound, Nukumoi Surf Shop and Kauai Christian Fellowship.

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Marty Leonard and Not My First Rodeo primed the crowd mingling through a variety of fundraising activities before the featured country female duo, Maddie and Tae, took the stage.

Judge Cliff Nakea and his

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