Other People’s Food: Owning Food

“We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.  Our fame, our children, the work of our hands, may be…

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Cooking Across Cultures, Classes, and Sexes in the 1930s: The Extraordinary Career of Mary Sia

When I taught at the University of Hawai‘i in the 1980s, I often wandered into the university bookstore during the lunch hour. Always on the shelf of local cookbooks was…

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Migrants, Nationalism and Culinary Heritage

Back to the question of culinary heritage that I blogged about a couple of weeks ago.  And to my book, The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii’s Culinary Heritage. When I…

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