Sarah Burchard is a writer and restaurant lifer living in Honolulu.

She currently covers all aspects of food, dining, travel and culture and has written about a variety of topics from the feeding efforts after the 2023 Maui wildfires, to “trash fish” as sustainable food sources, to the jazz kissas in Japan paving the way for modern listening bars to what it’s like to volunteer at a Hawaiian fishpond. She’s extensively covered O’ahu restaurants: new, old and closing. 

Sarah is passionate about ethical travel, sustainable food systems and local ingredients Her reporting has taken her to Hawaiʻi’s only shochu distillery, 3,500 feet above West Maui to taste farm-to-cup coffee, the mud-filled taro patches of Oʻahu, a two time Cocoa of Excellence Award winning cacao farm on Kauaʻi, the top of the Marunouchi Building in Tokyo for saimin, and many more newsworthy destinations. 

You can read Sarah’s print and/or online work in FLUX Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi Magazine, HONOLULU magazine, Forbes.com, hana hou!, Hawaiʻi Farm & Food, Violet, Living, R Magazine, and more.

In addition to her freelance work, Sarah is a staff writer for Kapiʻolani Community College (where she is currently earning her way-past-due degree), a social media manager for natuRe Waikīkī restaurant and a server at Monkeypod Waikīkī restaurant. She also blogs on Substack.

An avid reader and novice editor of fellow writers, Sarah spends every waking hour she isnʻt in a restaurant, or practicing yoga, analyzing words. She is always writing her next book. When she will finally publish one is to be determined.  

Follow Sarah on Instagram or email her at sarah@healthylocavore.com.

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