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Hawaiian Cooking: The Confluence of Civilisations

Hawaiian cooking is the most diverse food culture in the United States — a synthesis of Native Hawaiian (Polynesian), Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Portuguese, and Anglo-American influences that has produced a specific Hawaiian culinary identity. The plantation system (sugar and pineapple, 1850–1950) brought workers from Asia and Portugal, and their culinary traditions merged with the indigenous Hawaiian tradition to produce the specific "local food" culture of Hawaii.

Overview

The Hawaiian culinary synthesis.

Source

BRITISH ISLES + GERMAN/CENTRAL EUROPEAN + PACIFIC ISLAND

Cross-Cuisine Parallels

Polynesian umu cooking (same earth oven tradition — Hawaiian variation), Japanese influence in Hawaii (soy, sesame, teriyaki — the most direct Hawaiian-Japanese culinary connection), Filipino adobo in