A pakini full of hā from the preparation for the East Maui Taro Festival at the end of April. Hā is the name for the stalk of the kalo (what we think of as the "stem" but it is technically a petiole). The skin is stripped off (a process that can make the fingers raw and dark colored), and then the hā is steamed or boiled like lū'au (kalo leaf). It keeps better than lū'au, so it is good to cook and then bag and freeze. In this case, we broke them up into small pieces and added them to laulau, where they provide a nice extra texture and flavor along with the meats wrapped inside the lū'au leaves and ti leaves. Interesting to note that the original Kalo and the progenitor of Kanaka Maoli is Hāloa, which in simple terms mean long hā. Hā also means breath and the number four, and has several other meanings as well.


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