Most of the recipes in his collection, "I look at it, ah, I'm too lazy to make it, or it's too much humbug." His cooking tends toward pork hash (2 pounds will last several days) or curry stew. Lopez would make pasteles and 'til today I haven't been able to duplicate the taste she had." He has four recipes for Puerto Rican pasteles, for example, because he's on a quest to find one that matches what his neighbor made when he was growing up on Ahua Road, near the airport, during World War II. Pekelo says he saves recipes mainly to compare techniques. Ah Mai, for example, says she only cooked the dishes that looked easy and when she had all the ingredients on hand. Dedicated savers are not always dedicated cooks. Now, to enter our collector's contest, you don't have to actually prepare the recipes you collect. What is your oldest recipe? "Look in the box." Can't remember the interesting names right now, but I have them in a box." Some of the clippings were gathered into folders, but most were stored loose in the boxes.ĭo you collect cookbooks, too? "I have a collection of the ones politicians give away at election time. Where do you get most of your recipes? "From the newspapers, but I collect recipes from cookbooks and the Hawaiian Electric cooking classes."įL MORRIS / Onekea compiled her grandmotherÕs collection of recipe clippings - taken from weather-beaten cardboard boxes - into a cookbook as a project for a business class. Pekelo wouldn't let himself be photographed Ah Mai would only answer questions through her granddaughter, Onekea, and reluctantly, at that. In recent years, though, Pekelo has turned his attention to the Internet and is saving new recipes on his home computer.īoth of today's collectors are shy of the spotlight. They're compiled in a beat-up three-ring binder, with an index keyed to page numbers hand-written on the pages. Unlike Ah Mai, however, Pekelo has put some time into organizing his bits of paper. He has the label from a can of birds' nests with the instructions for making soup. His haphazard collection includes comic strips about eating, a guide to split-roasting a pig, a photograph of giant pumpkins. We're hoping to uncover some old recipe gems - but we also want to probe the psyche of those who save.īutch Pekelo, for example, has been stashing away recipes since the '80s and says it's a form of relaxation. We're looking for a few hopelessly devoted collectors of cookbooks and/or recipe clippings ( see the rules of the game). Right now, the topic is recipe collecting. It fell to her granddaughter, Kawehi Onekea, to do something with it all, and so was born "Granny's Recipe Collection," a benefit cookbook produced for Onekea's college business class. What she's got in there is a treasure trove of old paper - mostly clippings from Honolulu's two daily newspapers, but lots of other stuff, too, including recipes from Julia Child's cooking show, "The French Chef," that Ah Mai sent away for in the 1960s. Open a weather-beaten, water-spotted box now, and a gecko is likely to jump out. When the closet got too crowded, the boxes moved to the patio. Nope, everything ended up in two cardboard boxes in her closet. "īut no hermetically sealed collectors' cases for Ah Mai. Lena Ah Mai, age 93, has been socking away recipe clippings for "maybe about 30 years, maybe longer, I forget." When asked why, her answer could stand for just about any inveterate collector: "I save things I like and forget to throw them away. Where to enter: Send entries to "Recipe Fiend," Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features Section, 7 Waterfront Plaza, Suite 210, Honolulu 96813. The prize: A gift certificate for a cooking class at Kapiolani Community College goes to the best entry. You can enter on behalf of a friend or relative. #HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC PORK HASH HOW TO#How to enter: Write a couple of paragraphs on the topics above. » How long have you been collecting? What is the oldest item in your collection? What we want to know» About how many cookbooks do you have, or how big is your collection of clippings? How are they organized? Are you - or is someone you know - a die-hard cookbook or recipe collector? We're looking for the person with the most extensive local collection.
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