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Home to Hawaii in Search of Poke

Ligaya Mishan
NY Times, January 10, 2018

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Dateline Honolulu: “I can’t remember the first time I tasted poke, because in Hawaii, where I grew up, it was always there — in a plastic tub from Foodland or Tamura’s or Tamashiro’s, tossed on the table as a snack or a side dish. Never the main event, but always essential: pieces of raw fish seasoned simply, with a few strong ingredients to draw out the taste of the sea.

It made me sad to think that this is the only poke some mainlanders will ever know. So on a recent trip home, I decided to try to trace poke to its source: where it comes from, who makes it and how we eat it.

Ms. Mishan’s article is worth reading and salivating over. Onolicious – Broke da Mout!

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Happy Thanksgiving 2017

Great Colorful 2012 Tomato Harvest

 

  
Martha's Homegrown, 8/12

Our tomatoes are thriving this year: a bumper crop.  Today, in the NY Times there was an article in homage to local grown tomatoes.

"Isn't it lucky that just when it’s too hot to cook on the East Coast, tomatoes are at their sweetest, ripest and juiciest? Or at least it feels that way, like a serendipitous reward for suffering through a heat wave...That’s the saving grace: vine-ripened tomatoes are finally here. Year-round hot house tomatoes don’t begin to compare."

Young Scotland Wants Nae Skinking Ware

In the small Scottish town of Lochgilphead, a nine year auld lassie contemplated her school lunch and had an idea.  She would start a blog about the gustatory offerings of her local school.

On Tuesday, May 8, 2012, Martha Payne uploaded the first post on her blog Neverseconds and the world changed.

The NY Times had a short piece Girl 9, Gives School Lunch Failing Grade. But, it's much more complicated.

Her blog has gone viral.  As of the time of this post, there have been 6,203,620 hits to Neverseconds, and it's increasing by many hits per second.

Martha, do you say the Bobbie Burns grace before lunch?

“Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.”

Burns wad have approved of Neversceconds, especially on days when haggis is served.

For fine poetry and good fun see: Robert Burns: "Address to a Haggis"

Just Hold Back!

Before you start salivating at this image, read on...

Our local NPR station hosts "The Academic Minute," a segment that features professors from around the world, delving into  a variety of topics and  keeping us abreast of what's new and exciting in the Academe. The subject on December 19, 2011 was timely.

"Meetings, Snacking, and Obesity," presented Carly Pacanowski, addresses how the groaning board served at almost every meeting or social gathering we attend can have unintended health consequences.  Her academic minute is valuable and lucid.

Ms. Pacanowski is a Cornell Ph.D. candidate in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and is interested in obesity, body weight regulation, and quality of life.

Around the World in 80 Diets

In an unusual project, Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio, a photographer and writer, traveled the world collecting photos and stories about what people eat in a day. They documented the meager meals of a Masai goat herder, the fast-food diet of an American long-haul trucker and a veritable feast of lamb kebabs and other foods set out by an Iranian bread baker.

The photos, first compiled in the book “What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets,” have been selected for an unusual exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston. The result is an anthropological exploration of the culture of eating that is by turns mouthwatering, repulsive and surprising.

Read full article and see multimedia slide show.