The buy local/eat local movement in food has another visible component: edible Hawaiian Islands, a new quarterly magazine "Celebrating the Harvest of the Aloha State, Season by Season." Well-researched articles and almost-edible photography focus on homegrown and home-gathered foods, the people who grow and harvest them, chefs and restaurants, and sustainability issues. Editor Gloria Cohen of Kaua'i is a former hotelier, a jewelry designer and a passionate traveler who enjoys food and cooking.

The second issue, Fall 2007, is available at Borders Books & Music Stores, Times Super Markets (in the organic produce department) and Fujioka's. Subscriptions (4 issues, $28): 808-828-1559; P.O. Box 753, Kilauea, HI 96754; www.ediblehawaiianislands.com. The magazine is part of a family of publications from edible communities (www.ediblecommunities.com); for $45, you can subscribe to three of 30 magazines from around the country.

COOKBOOKS

2 LOCAL TOMES TO CONSIDER

If Santa left a little spending money for you cookbook collectors, two books to consider: