Growing Up Hapa in Hawaii: Recipes and Stories from Chef Ippy Aiona

Growing Up Hapa in Hawaii: Recipes and Stories from Chef Ippy AionaGrowing Up Hapa in Hawaii is not your typical cookbookits a heartfelt journey told through the lens of food, family, and heritage. Chef Ippy Aiona invites you into his story shaped by two rich culturesHawaiian and Italianblended together with love, grit, and a deep sense of place.

Kaliko Baker and Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker

this softer and less astringent sandalwood scent

The illustrations by noted artist Jean Charlot are a charming and amusing complement to the text

As Kanaka Maoli and their allies stand as land and water protectors

With insight and indignation

playing the ukulele

body and face

and Spectrum with a QR code that takes readers to a video showing Sam preparing the dish—it will feel as if Sam’s in your kitchen cooking with you

and the ascendancy of imperial racism

in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

“It is a sad reality of Hawaiian history that the language of the aboriginal people of the Hawaiian Kingdom was nearly lost in the 20th century as a result of efforts of U

and remembrances will be shared with community published by Kaiao Press and Puʻuhonua Society