Mahalo to Joleen Oshiro and the Star-Advertiser for your editorial support in the TODAY section of the paper: Three Kamehameha Schools high school seniors will embark on a 90-day challenge next month to incorporate kalo, or taro, into their three daily meals, and their efforts will be turned into a documentary film if they can raise the $77,000 it will take toproduce the film. I Am Haloa will follow Lahela Paresa, Laahiahoaalohaokekaimalie Kekahuna and Taylor Anne Mealii Fitzsimmons as they cultivate, harvest and eat kalo. The teens will replace all starches in their diet, including rice, bread and potatoes, with kalo. Chef Lee Anne Wong will be providing them with kalo recipes. Funding for the film is being raised on Kickstarter, where the public can make donations. The challenge was the brainchild of Paresa, president of Kamehamehas Kui Club, where members learn to cultivate and pound kalo. The teen anticipates the challenge will cultivate more respect for the food were eating as well as the land its grown on and promote not just poi consumption, but a healthier lifestyle tied to our heritage and the way our ancestors ate -- and look at what they could accomplish. Paresa said when she joined the club last year, she found she was more positive and more awake. The results, she says, extended beyond the physical into the spiritual. In this challenge I want to explore the concept of you are what you eat, she said. When youre feeding your body food from Hawaii, youre also feeding yourself as a Hawaiian person. - Joleen Oshiro
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:49:13 +0000
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