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Our Hawaiian Cookbook Memoir ...

won First Prize in an International Competition. The judges explained that they had never seen such "fine writing in a cookbook." It is a real cookbook, not a recipe book; that is, it teaches you how to prepare the recipes. And there are 250 of them representing all six of the ethnic tables of Hawai’i (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, European and, Hawaiian). No need to have a separate cookbook for each cuisine.

Our Authors ...

have grown up in the Islands or have lived the major portions of their lives here. They bring to their writings, whether about boats and sailing, Hawaiin Regional Cuisine, or hula wahine and Hawaiian culture, a depth that allows the reader to be confident of the authenticity of their material.

In addition to ...

the authors Diamond Hawai’i publishes, we also feature other Hawaiian authors and playwrights whom you may now wish to experience. Wayne Moniz is an award winning writer who works out of Maui and appeals to many who may remember the islands of an earlier day when great white ships brought movie stars and other interesting personalities to our sandy shores. (Click for more ...)

And also ...

there is William Wayne Dicksion, a story teller whose style allows the drawl and inflection of the old time teller of tales to emerge in the text. And Bill has been at his art a long time. (Click for more ...)

Lehua, The Sacred Flower PDF Print E-mail
Gene J. Parola

Image Coming in the spring of 2010.  A coming of age novel set in old Hawai'i and the first in the series of stories set on Molokai--Molokai pule-oo [powerful prayer] .

In the spring of 1819 King Ka-me-ha-me-ha I died after reigning for a peaceful decade over the first unified Kingdom of Hawai'i.  His young son, Li-ho-li-ho, became Ka-me-ha-me-ha II, but effective control of the government was inherited by the old king's favorite wife, Ku-hina Nui [Queen Regent], Ka'a-hu-ma-nu.  That fall, under the queen's influence
 
Li-ho-li-ho was forced to abandon the native Ha-wa-ii-an religion.
    
Amid the ensuing confusion, the first contingent of Calvinist missionaries arrived five months later. It was a death sentence to the 3000 year old Ka-na-ka Ma-oli culture;
    

Le-hua-lia-kahu-ama-lio-aka-lani-pa'aka-lo-le  [Lehua] the fictitious young chiefess of this novel comes of age at this trying moment in Ha-wa-ii-an history. Her divine ancestry gives her the right, responsibility and ability to be a leader of her people, but with 'the lifting of the ka-pu,' [the rejection of the old religion], she is suddenly bereft of her divine reason to be.  Beset by doubt, alien temptations and a welter of rational, if frightening, options, she makes a life for herself, her mixed race o-ha-na [family] and her circle of influence--astride the divergent forces that will ultimately doom her culture.  
    
American businessmen overthrew the Republic of Hawai'i and in 1898 gave the islands to the United States.
 
Tong Ah Tim, Ah Hin and Me-le are names from my o-ha-na and are used in memoriam.         

                                                  

 
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