Recipes

Vanilla-Lime Grilled Mahi

Seafood · Tahiti 25 min · Intermediate · Serves 4 Tahitian vanilla is a different species from the Madagascar bean most people know — Vanilla × tahitensis, grown mostly on...

Pineapple Pork Belly Ends

Pork 5 hrs · Intermediate · Serves 8 as an appetizer Burnt ends started as the brisket point trimmings Kansas City pitmasters gave away at the counter. Pork belly ends...

Guava-Mint Rack of Lamb

Lamb · Hawaii 1 hr · Intermediate · Serves 4 Paniolo predate the American cowboy. Mexican vaqueros came to the Big Island in the 1830s to handle the cattle running...

Lilikoi Smoked Duck Breast

Poultry 30 min · Intermediate · Serves 4 Lilikoʻi arrived in Hawaii in the 1880s and naturalized into the gulches, and the yellow variety in particular is aggressively tart —...

Chamorro BBQ Short Ribs

Beef · Guam 30 min + marinade · Easy · Serves 4-6 On Guam this is fiesta food — half-drum grills at village fiestas, church fundraisers, and roadside barbecue stands,...

Smoked Loco Moco

Beef 45 min · Intermediate · Serves 4 Loco moco was invented in Hilo in 1949 for teenage athletes from the Lincoln Wreckers club who wanted something cheap, fast, and...