Cooking with Kitchen Mama: Guest Profiles

	Maximo Concepcion, Guest Chef Favorite Dish for Cooking: Chicken Nut Bread Favorite Dish for Eating: Black Dog Adobo Can't Stand: Plastic personalities Childhood Hero: Beaver Cleaver Most Influential in Career: Next door neighbor who raises fighting cocks. Alternate Dream Job: Being paid well for doing something that requires no skill and no minimum hours. Dumplings of Wisdom: Put off until tomorrow what you could have done today.

Aunty Lomilomi Opulani, Guest Chef Favorite Dish for Cooking: Salmon Sautéed in White Wine & Butter Sauce, Crabcakes with White Wine Bernaise Sauce, Chicken with Red Wine Salsa Favorite Dish for Eating: Rubba Chicken wit wine sauce. (Only ting is da rubba claws get stuck in my teeth!) Can't Stand: Rancid wine Most Influential in Career: Kitchen Mama, of course! Alternate Dream Job: Master Sommelier Dumplings of Wisdom: Always cook da chicken first before tasting the wine! hic

	Zenji Zushi, Guest Sushi Chef Favorite Dish for Cooking: Sushi on a Teisho. (Sorry, but the ingrediments are largely raw.) Favorite Dish for Eating: Any sushi I prepare! Can't Stand: Yama-imo and uni! Most Influential in Career: Kitchen Mama Alternate Dream Job: Professional Eater or Diner Dumplings of Wisdom: Never make friends with a fish b4 you filet it!

Mabel Steward, Guest Chef Favorite Dish for Cooking: EASY Stuff. Fajitas, Buttons and Bows, Cookies Favorite Dish for Eating: Anything with DARK chocolate! Can't Stand: Eggplant! Childhood Hero: Martha Stewart, of course! Most Influential in Career: Lindy Hashimoto for letting me grow and for teaching me the importance of good food and great friends. "She's a gud thing!" Alternate Dream Job: Veterinarian, or maybe Chef to Celebrity Animals Dumplings of Wisdom: If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it!

	Mojo Myron, Aunty Lomilomi's Sous Chef [Missing in Action!] Favorite Dish for Cooking: Da kine chee ken free ka see Favorite Dish for Eating: Da kine sueeete saua spa a reebs Can't Stand: Da kine wael goate bata Childhood Hero: Da kine Hapi Along Casidi (da cauboy) Most Influential in Career: Da kine Playboy mag gazeene Alternate Dream Job: Da kine Englalesh teecha Dumplings of Wisdom: Da kine awe-waes tak off da glasaes befo yu put yur hed unda da wata wen yu takin one shawa.

Glenda Miyashiro, Host Favorite Dish for Cooking: Ramen Noodles in a disposable ZipLoc container. Nuke for 3 minutes to perfection! Favorite Dish for Eating: Chocolate Royalle SlimFast and Saltine Crackers Can't Stand: Cilantro, watercress, and tomatos. Food that has not been segregated appropriately. (Starches are allowed to touch other things, they're neutral.) Childhood Hero: The Kaimuki High School cafeteria ladies in school who segregated the school lunch appropriately in those compartmentalized plastic trays. Most Influential in Career: My brother, Glen Miyashiro. But mostly Kitchen Mama, who taught me that it's okay (and actually better) to be messy and imperfect when making Baklava. Preparing Filo in imperfect layers makes for a lighter and flakier Baklava! (Perfectly laid out sheets of Filo tend to become too compressed -- heavy, stiff Baklava isn't good!) Alternate Dream Job: Zenji Zushi's Human Microphone Stand and Full-time Groupie! (I'm a big fan, it was such an honor to have Zenji on the show. I got his autograph, even!) Dumplings of Wisdom: It takes true talent cook with a rubber chicken and plastic vegetables.

	Brendini, Guest Host Extraordinaire Favorite Dish for Cooking: Mmmmmm - it's a secret!!! Favorite Dish for Eating: Sushi, Eggplant Parmesan Can't Stand: Cooked green peas - yuck!!! Childhood Hero: Lucy from "I Love Lucy" Most Influential in Career: Too many to list - but many Mahalos for their help and guidance. Alternate Dream Job: Becoming a very well-paid and well-pampered Informercial Guest Host working one day a week from 10 a.m. til 2 p.m. with a 2-hour lunch break. Dumplings of Wisdom: If at first you don't succeed -- order take-out!

Joni, Videographer Joni, our tireless Videographer, worked the video camera throughout most of the filming of this week's Cooking With Kitchen Mama show. Galantly resisting the urge to burst out into riotous laughter, Joni kept a (mostly) straight face and a steady aim on the action.

	Donna, Webmaster/Resident Geek As the resident Geek, Donna maintains the Cooking With Kitchen Mama website.