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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 ...)

Paniolo Daughter PDF Print E-mail
Shirley Tong Parola
Written by Admin   
Saturday, 11 October 2008

Image 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.  

The native population, repeatedly scourged by the white man's diseases and abuse, had long ago found other more appealing employment as sailors and cowboys.  The plantation owners turned to Asian labor recruited from among the displaced refugees of China's civil wars.  

Most of these 'sojourners' as they were carefully called-suggesting that they would go back where they came from after their 'sojourn' among their betters--dutifully completed their minimal three year contract and returned to China. But a great many opted for the opportunities they saw in their new surroundings.
    
And this is the story of one of those adventurers left to his own resources at age 13, who became a paniolo, a cowboy, married into a prominent Hawaiian family and had seven children all of whom grew up to accomplish the American Dream--all the while leaving a succession of puzzling mysteries for his o-ha-na to unravel after his death.

 

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