Our Hawaiian Cookbook Memoir ...
won First Prize in an International Competition. The judges explained that they had never seen such "fine writing in a cookbook." It is a real cookbook, not a recipe book; that is, it teaches you how to prepare the recipes. And there are 250 of them representing all six of the ethnic tables of Hawai’i (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, European and, Hawaiian). No need to have a separate cookbook for each cuisine.
Our Authors ...
have grown up in the Islands or have lived the major portions of their lives here. They bring to their writings, whether about boats and sailing, Hawaiin Regional Cuisine, or hula wahine and Hawaiian culture, a depth that allows the reader to be confident of the authenticity of their material.
In addition to ...
the authors Diamond Hawai’i publishes, we also feature other Hawaiian authors and playwrights whom you may now wish to experience. Wayne Moniz is an award winning writer who works out of Maui and appeals to many who may remember the islands of an earlier day when great white ships brought movie stars and other interesting personalities to our sandy shores. (Click for more ...)
And also ...
there is William Wayne Dicksion, a story teller whose style allows the drawl and inflection of the old time teller of tales to emerge in the text. And Bill has been at his art a long time. (Click for more ...)
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Shirley Tong Parola Shirley Tong Parola is a retired English teacher who after 30 years of teaching writing in high school, has proven that teachers can “do as well as teach.” Proof of that is the award given to her and her daughter, co-author Lisa, by Writers’ Digest in 2004. Their cookbook-memoir “Remembering Diamond Head, Remembering Hawai'i” was awarded lst place honors in the magazine’s International Book contest in 2004. One judge remarked, “this is the best writing I've found in a cookbook.”
As the youngest of seven children in a Chinese-Hawaiian household, Shirley was a keen observer in her parents’ kitchen. That came in handy when she left the islands for graduate school in Indiana and Michigan, and later on as a teacher in Saudi Arabia and Turkey. She not only preserved Hawai'i’s foods for herself and her family; she introduced it to scores of mainlanders through three island-style restaurants.
Shirley Tong Parola A Cookbook Memoir of Hawai'i and Its Foods
1st Place Winner of Writer's Digest International Competition!
Remembering Diamond Head, Remembering Hawai'i, featuring 250 Island recipes, many of them "heart-friendly," traces the evolution of Hawaiian food from the "fish and poi" of Polynesian natives to the multicultural hybrids that make up the best of today's Island cooking. Each chapter of the book, from pu-pu to haupia—appetizers to desserts—and interesting sidebars on every page, instruct the cook on everything from locating and selecting ingredients to the preparation and preservation of them: "When is a mango ripe? How do you peel it?" "Ginger in gin?" And answers to other provocative questions that you didn't know you needed answers to. Plus a complete luau menu.
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Saturday, 11 October 2008 |
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Coming in the fall of 2010. One in a series of Molokai stories. Molokai pule-oo [of powerful prayer].
By 1850 white Europeans and Americans had wrested large acreages from native Hawaiians-some by marriage, some by subterfuge, some by virtual theft. And they blanketed those rolling acres with sugar cane, a plant they found growing upon their arrival. What they did not find was a ready supply of labor to do the terribly hot, hard and dirty work in the cane fields. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 April 2010 )
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