I may be in Hawaii but that doesn't mean I'm not cooking. I cook to celebrate things in my life. Things as important as love and friendship, and the everyday joys as well. Things like the perfect sunset.
These Marinated Shrimp, Pineapple and Portuguese Sausage Kabobs are a way for me to celebrate both friendship and the perfect sunset while learning about another culture. I'm in Kona, Hawaii visiting friends. The kind of friends who celebrate sunsets. To me that means cooking. Yep. I am the kind of person who cooks on vacation. Some people like to plop their butts down on the beach. And that's just fine, I love the beach. But I also love understanding a place just as much as vegetating in a place– so, as I said, I get into in the kitchen whenever I can. Does that make me odd? I don't think so. I think food is the quickest way to understand a new culture, so why not immerse myself in it.
Take Portuguese sausage. That hardly sounds Hawaiian. But this sausage is a delicious part of Hawaiian culinary culture. It originated as a style of pork sausage with vinegar, black pepper, garlic and paprika, known in Portugal as linguiça. This style of sausage was brought to Hawaii during the late 19th century by Portuguese immigrants—more than 10,000 of which came to work the sugar plantations.
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