This is an amazing image of a banana pod. They actually grow all over Hawaii. We especially love the
apple bananas. The leaves are used in making
luau food; we wrap whatever we want to cook in the
imu (underground, rock-heated steam oven) in the leaves to keep the food moist. Significant chunks of the commercial banana crops have been hammered by banana brushy-top virus, a nasty scourge that has no remedy aside from cutting down stands of banana trees. Fortuntely, our neighbors deliver us a hand or two of bananas each season, which we scarf down with wild glee.
—Alex, 09/29/06
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Elspeth said:
This sounds exotic, and it was good of you to explain what an imu is! Which leads me to suggest that you might include a small Hawaiian dictionary for those of us who are haoles ?!!? You do drop a Hawaiian word from time to time, and I’m not sure what you mean - I’m just sayin’ …
—09/29/06