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Kūlolo
is a Cuisine of Hawaii, Hawaiian dish made with taro and coconut. Considered a pudding, has a chewy and solid consistency like fudge or Southeast Asian ''dodol'', with a flavor similar to caramel or Chinese . Because taro is widely cultivated on the island of Kauai, taro products such as is often associated with the island. It is a well-beloved dish well documented by many non-Hawaiians since the late 1800s, sometimes found during festive occasions like at . Etymology The Hawaiian language, Hawaiian word is a cognate of the Nuclear Polynesian languages, Eastern Polynesian term "''roro''" which describes "brains matter, bone marrow; spongy matter," which itself is derived from Nuclear Polynesian languages, Nuclear Polynesian "''lolo''" which describes "coconut cream or oil", while "''kū''" is a qualitative and stative prefix. Preparation Traditional recipes call for wrapping a mixture of grated taro and coconut cream in ''Ti (plant), ti'' leaves and baking it in an ''imu'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōʻelepālau
(anglicized as ), or , is a Hawaiian pudding made primarily with cooked sweet potatoes mixed with coconut cream. It is similar to other Native Hawaiian puddings like and . It was once a dish well documented by many non-Hawaiians as an everyday dish, or as a dessert found at (or ) found alongside , and was noted by Robert Louis Stevenson during his visits in the late 1800s. History Sweet potato is one of the most earliest, cultivated crop carried into the central Pacific Islands by Austronesian peoples around 1300 AD, where they became a staple crop of Polynesians. Although associated as a root vegetable, all parts of the sweet potato was utilized. However, sweet potatoes were considered inferior and less valuable than taro, or ―a rare term used for "less desirable portions of meat or fish," but it was able to flourish in unfavorable growing conditions. Preparation Traditional recipes call for sweet potatoes roasted over coals or (cooked in an or earth oven An ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native Hawaiian Cuisine
Native Hawaiian cuisine refers to the traditional Hawaiian foods that predate contact with Europeans and immigration from East and Southeast Asia. The cuisine consisted of a mix of indigenous plants and animals as well as plants and animals introduced by Polynesian voyagers, who became the Native Hawaiians. History Voyagers and canoe foods The date of the arrival on the Hawaiian Islands of the earliest Polynesian seafarers is under debate. Nonetheless, when they arrived, few edible plants were indigenous to Hawaiʻi aside from a few ferns and fruits that grew at higher elevations. Fish, shellfish, and limu are abundant in Hawai’i. Flightless birds were easy to catch and eggs from nests were also eaten. Most Pacific islands had no meat animals except bats and lizards. Various food-producing plants were introduced to the island by the migrating Polynesian peoples. Botanists and archaeologists believe that these voyagers introduced anywhere from 27 to more than 30 plants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumpia
''Lumpia'' are various types of spring rolls commonly found in Indonesian cuisine, Indonesian and Filipino cuisine, Filipino cuisines. Lumpia are made of thin paper-like or crêpe-like pastry skin called "lumpia wrapper" enveloping savory or sweet fillings. It is often served as an appetizer or snack, and might be served deep-fried or fresh (unfried). Lumpia are Indonesian and Filipino adaptations of the Fujian cuisine, Fujianese ''lūn-piáⁿ'' (潤餅) and Teochew cuisine, Teochew ''popiah'' (薄餅), usually consumed during Qingming Festival. In Indonesia, lumpia is a favorite snack, and is known as a Street food of Indonesia, street hawker food in the country. Lumpia was introduced by Chinese Indonesian, Chinese settlers to Dutch East Indies, Indonesia during colonial times possibly in the 19th century. In the Philippines, lumpia is one of the most common dishes served in gatherings and celebrations. In the Netherlands and Belgium, it is spelled ''loempia'', the old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'', ''Kidnapped (novel), Kidnapped'' and ''A Child's Garden of Verses''. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Sidney Colvin, Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and William Ernest Henley, W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in ''Treasure Island''. In 1890, he settled in Samoa where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the Polynesia, South Sea islands, his writing turned from Romance (literary fiction), romance and adven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus '' Musa''. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a peel, which may have a variety of colors when ripe. It grows upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless ( parthenocarp) cultivated bananas come from two wild species – '' Musa acuminata'' and ''Musa balbisiana'', or hybrids of them. ''Musa'' species are native to tropical Indomalaya and Australia; they were probably domesticated in New Guinea. They are grown in 135 countries, primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent to make banana paper and textiles, while some are grown as ornamental plants. The world's largest producers of bananas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yam (vegetable)
Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus ''Dioscorea'' (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers (some other species in the genus being toxic). Yams are perennial herbaceous vines native to Africa, Asia, and the Americas and cultivated for the consumption of their starchy tubers in many temperate climate, temperate and tropics, tropical regions. The tubers themselves, also called "yams", come in a variety of forms owing to numerous cultivars and related species. Description A Monocotyledon, monocot related to lilies and grasses, yams are vigorous herbaceous, perennial plant, perennially growing vines from a tuber. Some 870 species of yams are known, a few of which are widely grown for their edible tuber but others of which are toxic (such as ''Dioscorea communis, D. communis''). Yam plants can grow up to in length and high. The tuber may grow into the soil up to deep. The plant disperses by seed. The edible tuber has a rough skin that is diffi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breadfruit
Breadfruit (''Artocarpus altilis'') is a species of flowering tree in the mulberry and jackfruit family ( Moraceae) believed to have been selectively bred in Polynesia from the breadnut ('' Artocarpus camansi''). Breadfruit was spread into Oceania via the Austronesian expansion and to further tropical areas during the Colonial Era. British and French navigators introduced a few Polynesian seedless varieties to Caribbean islands during the late 18th century. Today it is grown in 90 countries throughout South and Southeast Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean, Central America and Africa. Its name is derived from the texture of the moderately ripe fruit when cooked, similar to freshly baked bread and having a potato-like flavor. The trees have been widely planted in tropical regions, including lowland Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. In addition to the fruit serving as a staple food in many cultures, the light, sturdy timber of breadfruit ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Potato
The sweet potato or sweetpotato (''Ipomoea batatas'') is a dicotyledonous plant in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its sizeable, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a root vegetable, which is a staple food in parts of the world. Cultivars of the sweet potato have been bred to bear tubers with flesh and skin of various colors. Moreover, the young shoots and leaves are occasionally eaten as greens. The sweet potato and the potato are in the order Solanales, making them distant relatives. Although darker sweet potatoes are often known as "yams" in parts of North America, they are even more distant from actual yams, which are monocots in the order Dioscoreales. The sweet potato is native to the tropical regions of South America in what is present-day Ecuador. Of the approximately 50 genera and more than 1,000 species of Convolvulaceae, ''I. batatas'' is the only crop plant of major importance—some others are used locally (e.g., ''I. aquatica'' "ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ti (plant)
''Cordyline fruticosa'' is an evergreen flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. It is known by a wide variety of common names, including ti plant, palm lily, cabbage palm. The plant has been cultivated in Asia and Oceania, with a number of uses including food and traditional medicine. It is of great cultural importance to the traditional inhabitants of the Pacific Islands and Maritime Southeast Asia. Description It is a palm-like plant growing up to tall with an attractive fan-like and spirally arranged cluster of broadly elongated leaves at the tip of the slender trunk. The leaves range from red to green and variegated forms. It is a woody plant with leaves (rarely ) long and wide at the top of a woody stem. It produces long panicles of small scented yellowish to red flowers that mature into red berries. Taxonomy ''Cordyline fruticosa'' was formerly listed as part of the families Agavaceae and Laxmanniaceae (now both subfamilies of the Asparagaceae in the APG III ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prefix
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word. Particularly in the study of languages, a prefix is also called a preformative, because it alters the form of the word to which it is affixed. Prefixes, like other affixes, can be either inflectional, creating a new form of a word with the same basic meaning and same lexical category, or derivational, creating a new word with a new semantic meaning and sometimes also a different lexical category. Prefixes, like all affixes, are usually bound morphemes. English has no inflectional prefixes, using only suffixes for that purpose. Adding a prefix to the beginning of an English word changes it to a different word. For example, when the prefix ''un-'' is added to the word ''happy'', it creates the word ''unhappy''. The word ''prefix'' is itself made up of the stem ''fix'' (meaning "attach", in this case), and the prefix ''pre-'' (meaning "before"), both of which are derived from Latin roots. English language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuclear Polynesian Languages
Nuclear Polynesian refers to those languages comprising the Samoic languages, Samoic and the Eastern Polynesian languages, Eastern Polynesian branches of the Polynesian languages, Polynesian group of Austronesian languages. The Eastern Polynesian group comprises two major subgroups: Rapa Nui language, Rapa Nui, spoken on Easter Island, and Central-Eastern Polynesian languages, Central-Eastern, which is itself composed of Rapa language, Rapan, and the Marquesic languages, Marquesic and Tahitic languages. Nuclear Polynesian is differentiated, among Polynesian languages, by its distinguishing characteristics from the Tongic languages spoken in most of Tonga and in Niue. Languages *Nuclear Polynesian **Samoic languages, Samoic ***East Uvean–Niuafo'ou languages ***Ellicean languages ***Futunic languages ***Pukapukan language, Pukapuka ***Samoan language, Samoan ***Tokelauan language, Tokelauan **Eastern Polynesian languages, Eastern Polynesian ***Rapa Nui language, Rapa Nui ***Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
