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A contemporary Hawaiian diet consists of many tuberous plants, particularly sweet potato and kalo. The Hawaii Agricultural Statistics Service determined the 10-year median production of kalo to be about 6.1 million pounds (2,800 t). [74] However, 2003 taro production was only 5 million pounds (2,300 t), the lowest since record-keeping began in ...
A taro burger from Down to Earth, Maui. This is a list of dishes in Hawaiian cuisine, which includes Native Hawaiian cuisine and the broader fusion cuisine of Hawaii.The cuisine of Hawaii refers to the indigenous, ethnic, and local cuisines within the diverse state of Hawaii.
In Polynesia, Alocasia macrorrhizos (‘ape) was considered a famine food, used only in the event of failure of the much preferred taro (kalo) crop. [14] After having been introduced to Hawaii in the 1920s from South America, Xanthosoma has naturalized and has become more common than A. macrorrhizos, and has been given the same name, ʻape.
Hawaiian tropical tiki cocktails like the Blue Hawaii make use of rum. The rum is blended with a variety of tropical fruit juices and served with a decorative piece of fruit. [62] Okolehao is an old Hawaiian liquor distilled from the fermented root of the ti plant. [62] Hawaiian wine is produced mostly on the island of Maui and the island of ...
Island Distillers in Honolulu makes 100-US-proof (50% Alcohol by volume) Hawaiian ʻŌkolehao, a re-creation of the original ʻōkolehao. [5] There have been several past and recent productions of an okolehao type liqueur which is made by blending extracts of ti plant root, or ground up and emulsified ti root, with sugar syrup, rum, neutral spirits, bourbon, and other artificial and natural ...
English also borrows some Hawaiian words (e.g. ukulele, mahimahi, and muʻumuʻu). Hawaiian vocabulary often overlaps with other Polynesian languages, such as Tahitian, so it is not always clear which of those languages a term is borrowed from. The Hawaiian orthography is notably different from the English orthography because there is a special ...
Hawaiian malasadas with various fillings. In 1878, Portuguese laborers from Madeira and the Azores started to immigrate to Hawaii to work on the plantations. [7] They brought with them their traditional foods, including fried doughnuts they called malassadas ― now commonly spelled as malasadas.
Melicoccus bijugatus is a fruit-bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalized across the New World tropics including South and Central America, and parts of the Caribbean.