The Hawaiians also brought something back with them from B.C.--salmon! For dinner tonight, I had a traditional Hawaiian dish: lomi salmon. It's marinated diced salmon with onions and green onions, and it's delicious. Marinated fish salads, called "poke" (pronounced "po-kay"), are big here: there are poke recipe contests where everybody shares his or her or their grandmother's special kind.

Unfortunately, most of the salmon we get here is the farmed Atlantic stuff ("color added"!), not the big Coho and sockeye I had in Seattle. Of course, we do have ahi and moi and mahimahi and... Then again, I lived in Hawaii for 7 years as a strict vegetarian, not eating fish. That was tough!

Aloha,
Mark