A preview of Arnold Hiura's "Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands." In Kau Kau, author Arnold Hiura—a writer with roots in the plantation cultu...
"Kaukau" is a pidgin slang word meaning "food" or "to eat." The Hawaiian term for food is `ai. The two theories on the origin of the word "kaukau" are the Hawaiian word for table, pâkaukau, and the Chinese word for food, chow chow. In Hawaii we say "We go kaukau!", I would say, "I hungry I like kaukau!" or "Let's kaukau!" The Cuisine of Hawaii is a fusion of foods brought by immigrants to the Hawaiian Islands, particularly of Portuguese, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Polynesian etc.
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Friday, June 06, 2014
Interview with Arnold Hiura, "Kau Kau" author
An interview with Arnold Hiura, author of "Kau Kau: Cuisine and Culture in the Hawaiian Islands," at Hawaii's Plantation Village. In "Kau Kau," author Arnold...
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