What’s The Cold, Hard Truth About Ice In Hawaiʻi? with Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness
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Native Hawaiian Politics of Consumption
I think that it was a pretty complicated intersection of nationalist pride and also anxiety about Western encroachment. It really happens through this clash of Western taste and cosmopolitan ideas of consumption with indigenous foodways and Native Hawaiian politics of consumption. And so we have Native Hawaiian foods that are sour and salty, room temperature, kinds of things. And then we've got these Western prize tastes that are sweet and cold that kind of butt up against the tepid and the salty and the sour. That's fucking cool.
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