Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands, Available for Pre-order
Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands by Arnold Hiura
Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands by Arnold Hiura, an upcoming release from Watermark Publishing, will be in stores January 2010.
But you can pre-order an advance copy now for holiday delivery via the publisher's Web site or enter to win a copy in a series of weekly drawings via Facebook and Twitter.
For more information on the weekly contests, click here. Kau Kau is retail priced at $32.95, and pre-order priced at $30.
Kau Kau: Cuisine & Culture in the Hawaiian Islands presents good food, classic recipes and the remarkable story of Hawai‘i’s mixed plate.
“Kau kau”—It’s the all-purpose pidgin word for food, probably derived from the Chinese “chow chow.” On Hawai‘i’s sugar and pineapple plantations, kau kau came to encompass the amazing range of foods brought to the Islands by immigrant laborers from East and West: Japanese, Portuguese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans, Koreans and others. On the plantations, lunch break was “kau kau time,” and the kau kau could be anything from adobo to chow fun to tsukemono.
Arnold Hiura
In Kau Kau, author Arnold Hiura—a writer with roots in the plantation culture—explores the rich history and heritage of food in Hawai‘i, with little-known culinary tidbits, interviews with chefs and farmers, over 70 recipes ranging from local plantation classics to Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine, and a treasury of rare photos and illustrations.
Readers can view a sample photo gallery at the book’s Fan Page on Facebook and are invited to share their own kau kau memories there.
Arnold Hiura is an independent writer, editor and media consultant based in Honolulu. He is a partner in MBFT Media, which provides communications and creative services to Hawai‘i companies and community organizations. He previously served as editor of the Hawaii Herald and curator for the Japanese American National Museum. He was born and raised in the sugar plantation town of Papa‘ikou, about five miles north of Hilo on the Big Island of Hawai‘i.
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