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This time, it's me that has a recipe request. For a couple of projects I'm working on, I'd love your input as follows:
Ozoni: I need a recipe for the Japanese New Year's mochi soup that is supposed to be the first thing you eat as the year dawns. If you've got one that is not from a copyrighted cookbook, but from your own family's collection, I'd love to look at it and possibly use it in my next cookbook. If you've got any ideas for shortcuts or streamlining the making of this soup, all the better. But maybe ozoni is one of those things you just have to make all from scratch. What would a Portuguese girl know about that?
Please be specific as to amounts, preferred product brands, the meaning of any Japanese ingredients or cooking terms. My contact information is below.
School-kine recipes: I am seeking recipes from school systems, public or private, in Hawai'i. I have some — Spanish rice, shortbread cookies, Kamehameha Schools' peach cobbler, a few entrees, Mrs. Tyau's dressing from St. Louis, apple crisps from Maui High's all-class reunion a while back. But I'd love to (a) find any retired cafeteria managers out there who would be willing to share recipes and talk story about the old days when every school had its own hot kitchen, and (b) any old school recipe you might have in your possession. The DOE Food Services department let me ransack their files, but they don't have many of the private recipes of old-time cafeteria managers.
Among the recipes folks have requested over the years:
Are any of these, or any other school recipes, in your possession? Did you have a mother, grandma, auntie or other relative who worked in the school lunch system? Do you have any stories to tell about their work? And do you remember when students used to have to take a day or two a year working in the cafeteria? I'd love to hear your memories of those days — did you get special treats? Were the ladies nice? Did you learn something about cooking you still use? Did you make a memorable mistake? What did lunch cost for you then? Did you have meal tickets? Was it popular to eat school lunch or was it considered cool to take lunch? Did you ever go home to lunch?
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Send these to me at wadams@honoluluadvertiser.com or fax to 525-8055, or mail to Wanda Adams, Food Editor, Island Life, The Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802. Or call me to talk story at 535-2412. You'll find my blogs at www.honoluluadvertiser.com/blogs.
Send recipes and queries to Wanda A. Adams, Food Editor, Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802. Fax: 525-8055. E-mail: wadams@honoluluadvertiser.com.
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