1985: Plantation Village Cookbook (Friends of Waipahu Cultural Garden Park)

We are so lucky that Allisa Benjamin joined the Kau Kau Chronicles Facebook group! She was so generous and shared photos of her amazing cookbook collection that she inherited from her late mother 🌺Lily Cordero🌺. In looking at the photos Allisa shared, I saw a cookbook from the “New Products Show.” I recalled that a…

Many of the cookbooks featured on this site were originally published by Hawaii’s University Extension Clubs and Home Demonstration Councils. Specifically, these are the cookbooks with covers featuring a solid color, such as yellow, red, green, blue, or gold and a line drawing of the Hawaiian Island from which the recipes were shared. I’ve always…