Farmers on the Hawaiian island of Kauai say their state should brace for a shortage of its taro crop, a staple of the traditional Hawaiian diet, after record-breaking rains flooded their fields. The ...

Kauai farmers say the state should brace for a shortage of taro after record-breaking rain flooded their fields. The deluge hit the north shore community of Hanalei particularly hard. The region grows ...

If you’re familiar with the Hawaiian lūʻau plate — laden with dishes like kalua pork, huli huli chicken, tuna poke, and macaroni salad — you’ve probably seen poi. Maybe you tried it and thought it ...

HONOLULU — Farmers on Kauai say the state should brace for a shortage of its taro crop, a staple of the traditional Hawaiian diet, after record-breaking rains flooded their fields. The state’s taro ...

Besides celebrating all things taro, the East Maui Taro Festival includes cultural activites such as performing hula, making kapa (tapa), weaving lau hala bracelets, playing konane (Hawaiian checkers) ...

Even before last week’s flooding blocked Kuhio Highway at the Hanalei bridge, Bino Fitzgerald was predicting a poi shortage this summer. A variety of pests including pocket rot (a disease that forms ...

Not everyone finds poi, the grayish-purple mash made from the root of the taro plant, as appetizing as Hawaiians do. Taro was a source of sustenance for the early Polynesian settlers, and poi retains ...

There are several foods unique to Hawaii that every seasoned foodie traveler must try. One of them is poi — the pale purple paste that results from pounding the kalo, or revered taro plant. A root ...

Taro, a crop whose roots date back centuries in Hawaii, will be celebrated this month in the remote Maui village of Hana. Taro is best known as the plant from which poi is made, but it can take ...

Lyndsey Haraguchi-Nakayama plants huli, or taro seedlings at her farm in Hanalei, Kauai island. Farmers on the island of Kauai say their state should brace for a shortage of its taro crop, a staple of ...