Hawaiian Drinks
The cuisine of Hawaii incorporates five distinct styles of food, reflecting the diverse food history of settlement and immigration in the Hawaiian Islands. In the pre-contact period of Ancient Hawaii (300 AD-1778), Polynesian navigation, Polynesian voyagers brought plants and animals to the Islands. As Native Hawaiians settled the area, they fished, raised taro for ''poi (food), poi'', planted coconuts, sugarcane, sweet potatoes and yams, and cooked meat and fish in earth ovens. After First contact (anthropology), first contact in 1778, European cuisine, European and Cuisine of the United States, American cuisine arrived along with missionaries and whalers, who introduced their own foods and built large sugarcane Sugar plantations in Hawaii, plantations. Christian missionaries brought New England cuisine while whalers introduced salted fish which eventually transformed into the side dish lomi salmon, lomilomi salmon. As pineapple and sugarcane plantations grew, so did demand f ...
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