A collection of the most popular and loved dishes Hawaii's kama'aina remember, enjoy, and continue to eat at restaurants and in homes throughout the islands. From Chicken Katsu to Spam Musubi, it's all here with cooking tips and stories about chefs and hole-in-the-wall restaurants of days gone-by. If it's true that we are what we eat, then Hawaii is a genuine melting pot where people meld customs and share tradtions on plates full of kimchee, adobo, scalloped potatoes, and a side of rice.

What Hawaii Likes to Eat

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Muriel Miura

Betty Shimabukuro

Regional & International

Mutual Pub Co

By Request is all about food and the part it plays in our everyday lives how it plays a part in our personal and collective memory; how it signifies specific times in our lives. The weekly column was part of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin s Food section for decades under the stewardship of several different writers, and continues in the new Honolulu Star-Advertiser under Betty Shimabukuro. Readers write in about dishes they ve enjoyed at restaurants, that they remember from childhood, that they re just curious about. I try to find answers to a few of these mysteries. This cookbook is a second helping of stories and recipes that grew of out those requests. By Request has always depended on the kindness of great cooks willing to share. Enjoy the tales, enjoy the recipes. And if you find something really good? Pass it on. Great dishes should always be shared.

By Request 2

Mutual Publishing, Co.

The range of appetizers is perfect for the next potluck. Main dishes originating from generations ago span the globe, hailing from places such as Laos, Germany, and Okinawa. There are time-saving dishes created by working moms and dads so other families can have an easier time finding that special balance between work and play. Refreshing salads, hearty soups and stews will add to the list of comfort foods. There s even a special nod to Portuguese bean soup a family favorite in Hawaii that is versatile enough to allow personal family twists. Side dishes get their due the perfect accessory making any main dish shine. And of course, desserts, with a wide array of tropical fruits to choose from and an impressive collection of cultures to draw from. The recipes include family treasures such as panipopo (Samoan coconut rolls), pineapple cream cheese pie, buko salad, and Okinawan chocolate crepes

Hawaii's Ohana Cookbook

Joleen Oshiro

Mutual Publishing

The pressure cooker and the slow cooker may seem to be devices with little in common. One works fast, the other takes its time. But both yield wholesome, tasty dishes and can go a long way toward the goal of efficiently produced meals for busy families. Hurry Up and Wait is a collection of local-style recipes designed to make the best use of these devices. If you are new to using them, if you cook with one but not the other, or if you are a veteran in search of fresh ideas, these recipes will open your eyes to the versatility of two very handy tools.

Hurry Up and Wait: Hawaii's Favorite Recipes for the Pressure Cooker and the Slow Cooker

Kitchen Appliances

Mutual Publishing, LLC

The best of from Hurry Up and Wait is a collection of local-style recipes designed to make the best use of these devices. If you are new to using them, if you cook with one but not the other, or if you are a veteran in search of fresh ideas, these recipes will open your eyes to the versatility of two very handy tools. Betty Shimabukuro and Joleen Oshiro, writers and editors at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, know that slow cooking and pressure cooking can be tricky. They know that some home cooks give up on the devices because of mediocre results achieved in the past. So they ve tested and retested dozens of recipes, sought advice from newspaper readers, picked the brains of local chefs resulting in this compilation. They ve made the mistakes that can sabotage a home cook, so you don t have to. If you ve already mastered kalua pork in the pressure cooker or corned beef in your Crock-Pot, try something new from the Hurry Up and Wait Repertoire. Make a bread pudding or a cheesecake in either device. Amaze yourself. Cook it fast, cook it slow, or better do a little of both.

Little Hawaiian Hurry Up & Wait Cookbook

A recipe is a terrible thing to waste. Or lose. This is the simple truth behind By Request, a weekly column that originated decades ago in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and continues today in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser's Wednesday Crave food section. Newspaper readers send in their requests for recipes for old-school comfort foods, for restaurant favorites, for new things they just want to try. The mission of the column has been to hunt down those recipes. Writer Betty Shimabukuro inherited By Request in 1998 and continues to field requests and solve those mysteries. By Request Highlights compiles top recipes from Betty s first two books By Request The Search for Hawaii s Greatest Recipes and By Request 2 The Continuing Search for Hawaii s Greatest Recipes and adds more than thirty new recipes. The collection covers plate lunch standards, long-gone classics, signature restaurant dishes, and dozens of other dishes celebrating that cuisine we call local. It may not have a clear definition, but we know it when we taste it. The opening chapter is a salute to the foods of the Hawaii s school cafeterias. The following chapters cover breakfast foods, dishes for both meat lovers and vegetarians, and desserts. The final chapter is for the advanced motivated home cook who has the time and wherewithal to take on more complicated dishes.

By Request Highlights: The Search for Hawaii's Greatest Recipes Continues

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