Here’s an initial installment from the food-related notes collected by Professor Carey D. Miller in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
This is a short excerpt by Maria Loomis, wife of an early missionary to the islands, dated May 1832. I believe this was typed by my mother, Helen Lind, copied from notes gathered by Hawaiian historian David Forbes.
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Thanks, Ian. Just when I was sitting down to dinner you had me yearning for some salt prok, Irish do, tarro, and for dessert a slice of delicious gooseberry pye. Tomorrow I will see Safeway has any in stock.
Cheers,
David
Thanks Ian for this rare glimpse into the past. A few of my ancestors came to Hawaii to try farming.
So interesting to see into the past about food. I wonder if the small dark “oysters” are opihi?