Rachel Laudan

Here’s something I’ve been wanting to post for some time.  This ad appeared in Honolulu in a weekly, The Polynesian, in June 1840.  If it’s hard to read the words, here they are: Good people all, walk in and buy Of Sam & Mow, good cake & pie: bread hard or soft, for land or [...]

In 1937, the then President of the University of Hawaii, David Crawford, wrote Hawaii’s Crop Parade, 288 pages in which he relentlessly listed the crops that had been tried in Hawaii.There were more than 200 of them, more than that if you count varieties and subspecies. Only a handful had been successful commercially.  I’ve always [...]

And while I am on the topic of Hawaii, it is always such fun to see people new to the Islands come to terms with the amazing food culture there.  Aaron Kagan is doing a series on his recent visit in his always-thoughtful blog, Tea and Food.  (And that’s not just because he cites my [...]