Before sunrise one morning, on Hawai‘i Island, a man named ‘Ulu prayed to the gods for help and guidance. His son was dying ...

Mutual Publishing has two new little cookbooks out this month, “Hawai‘i Cooks with Coconut” and “Hawai‘i Does Desserts.” ...

But the fire also nearly wiped out another set of trees ... Polynesian voyagers brought around 1,000 years ago. Such imports could have been carried across the ocean, wrapped in rotted coconut ...