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About the Kau Kau Chronicles<\/h3>\n

We created the Kau Kau Chronicles to preserve and share, free of charge<\/em>, recipes from hardcopy-only, out-of-print cookbooks published by local Hawai’i community organizations from the early 1900s to the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

These recipes reflect some of the favorite dishes of Hawai’i and have been a part of amazing meals and moments for the people of Hawai’i over the decades. But of equal importance, the recipes capture the ingredients and techniques of a specific place and time in history. As a body of work, they document a culinary and cultural history of Hawai’i that must be preserved and shared with future generations.<\/p>\n

We digitize these precious and fragile cookbooks to preserve and make searchable a record of an era of cooking in Hawai’i. We are grateful to be able to provide this free resource that empowers generations to come to understand and explore a very special cuisine that developed in Hawai’i during this era and that endures to this day.<\/p>\n

Each recipe is accompanied by an image of the hardcopy page on which it was originally published to provide deeper context for historical purposes.<\/p>\n

We do not share cookbooks that are currently being sold by their originating community organizations. We do not share cookbooks written by individuals.<\/p>\n

Why kau kau<\/em>?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Kau kau<\/em> is Pidgin, the creole language of Hawai’i. As a noun, it means food, or a meal: Where\u2019s da kau kau?<\/em> As a verb it means to eat: We going kau kau now. <\/em>An online search<\/a> will reveal many theories about the origins of kau kau<\/em> as used in Hawai’i\u2019s Pidgin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Where to buy the cookbooks?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

An online search for a cookbook\u2019s title may offer you a few ways to buy the book on Amazon, eBay, or other sources. <\/p>\n

Here are some other resources, but we can\u2019t guarantee that orders are being fulfilled, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n