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Whataroa potato (taewa), an example of a Māori potato. Potatoes originate in the Andes and temperate Chile, and were introduced into Europe in the second half of the 16th century, as part of the Columbian exchange. [7] Māori traditions maintain that taewa were cultivated well before Europeans first visited New Zealand.
Sweet potato is associated with the new year festival of Makahiki, where the first fruits of the harvest (kāmalui hou) were offered to the gods, typically sweet potatoes and taro. [25] By the mid-1800s, traditional rain-fed sweet potato cultivation in Hawaii ceased due to depopulation and damage caused by introduced Western grazing animals. [42]
Hawaiians traditionally cook the starchy, potato-like heart of the taro corm for hours in an underground oven called an imu, which is also used to cook other types of food such as pork, carrots, and sweet potatoes. [7] Breadfruit can also be made into poi (i.e. poi ʻulu), Hawaiians however consider this inferior in taste to that of the taro. [8]
Sweet potatoes for sale, Thames, New Zealand. The word "kumara" has entered English from Māori and is widely used, especially in Polynesia. Dutch linguists and specialists in Amerindian languages Willem Adelaar and Pieter Muysken have suggested that the word for sweet potato is shared by Polynesian languages and languages of South America.
Hawaii is one of the few U.S. states where coffee production is a significant economic industry – coffee is the second largest crop produced there. The 2019–2020 coffee harvest in Hawaii was valued at $102.9 million. [8] As of the 2019-2020 harvest, coffee production in Hawaii accounted for 6,900 acres of land. [9]
Breadfruit, sweet potato, kava, and heʻe are associated with the four major Hawaiian gods: Kāne, Kū, Lono and Kanaloa. Popular condiments included paʻakai ( salt ), ground kukui nut , limu ( seaweed ), and ko ( sugarcane ) which was used as both a sweet and a medicine.
No Maori Allowed, directed by Corinna Hunziger was named the winner of the Pasifika Award and recipient of a $5,000 cash prize at the Hawaii International Film Festival. It recounts the story of a ...
Sweet potato has been radiocarbon-dated in the Cook Islands to 1000 AD, and current thinking is that it was brought to central Polynesia around 700 AD, possibly by Polynesians who had traveled to South America and back, and spread across Polynesia to Hawaii and New Zealand from there. [6] [7]