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Betts returns to the Hawaii Food & Wine Festival for the fifth straight year.

“It’s one of my favorite food and wine festivals,” Betts says.

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“When I come to Hawaii, it’s super mellow. Everybody’s so chill. The events are amazing and the chefs are amazing. There’s so much great talent and food, it’s outta control.”

Betts was born on the East Coast but spent most of his childhood in the southwest.

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His parents — his dad was a biomedical engineer; his mom, armed with a Ph.D., ran a successful teen parent program in the local public school system — instilled the love of the outdoors in Betts.

“Almost every weekend we were on a beach in Mexico,” Betts says.

“It was great. We would be in a sleeping bag on a bed of seashells and it was lumping and rocky and I loved it.

At the beach, he would snorkel, fish and play in tidepools. He remembers one night, during a full moon, he went with his family to the beach with a flashlight to explore.

He was about seven years old. The tide had dro