6A Portuguese-Hawai'i Kitchen: The Local Foods of Island Portuguese explores Hawai'i's Portuguese cooking starting with the familiar soups and breads, on to basic traditional dishes and special festive recipes. The collection incorporates the initial simple resourceful diet of major proteins and greens grown in backyard gardens and the adaptation to locally available ingredients as the Portuguese adjusted to island life.

Third-generation food writer and historian, Wanda Adams, has gathered from family, neighbors, and friends these treasured, handed-down recipes that revive those sprawling kitchen tables ringed by large, loving families.