Preserving and sharing the history of Hawai’i’s recipes
📚 Explore the cookbooks
🐣 Latest recipes
🍡 Mochi
👩🏽🍳 From our trial kitchens
🐨 Unusual recipes
🌺 Mahalo to the community homemakers who created these cookbooks 🌺
A shared history
Digitizing and making searchable historic hardcopy-only cookbooks before they are lost to time.
Flavors of an era
Paying tribute to these cookbook creators, showcasing the best of Hawai’i cooking from this era.
For the future
Presenting recipes in their original form as a record of our past and an enduring reference for the future.
The Calabash – a Hawai’i food blog
Learn about the kupūna who created and shared our favorite recipes of the past, present, and future.
Hear the origin stories of some of our most iconic island recipes.
Share a story, ask a question, or just say howzit! 🤙🏽
Know someone who contributed to these cookbooks?
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