The KaiKai Book

This video includes highlights from the 2010 Mungalla Kup Murri Cook Off Festival held at Mungalla Station on 3rd - 5th September 2010. For more information, visit: www.mungallaaboriginaltours.com.au

Massey University staff and students prepare a traditional Māori feast or Hangi. This video is a step-by-step guide on how to prepare and cook a Hangi.

The lovo is Fiji's method of earth oven cooking similar to the hangi of Aotearoa or the umu of Samoa. Actually it's pretty much the same across the Pacific. Tarisi Vunidilo introduces the method and style of a Fijian lovo as practiced in urban Auckland, Aotearoa, today. Her process is setup like this: 1. Prepare a menu for the number of people (volume of food is important) 2. Lovo consists of - meat, chicken & pork, vegetables; palusami and root crops: dalo, tavioka and kumala. 3. Make sure you have enough firewood, large banana leaves and stones for the lovo pit. 4. Prepare your meat by marinating (overnight) and wrap in foil. 5. Prepare your palusami (see our 'how to make palusami item for more) 6. Peel dalo and cassava ready for the lovo 7. Light the fire for the lovo, enough to heat the stones, then throw the firewood out leaving only the hot stones in the pit. 8. Line the food you are planning to cook, on top of the stones. 9. Food to be covered by green leaves to keep the steam in, then cover with soil (or sacks of potatoes and tarpolin). Food will take 60 - 90 minutes to cook.

Preserving Hawaiian Culture: How To Build The Traditional Hawaiian Imu. On June 4th 2016 Habilitat Hawaii presents the largest family luau in the state of Hawaii at Kualoha Ranch. Preparing to feed 2000 people takes a lot of work. Habilitat participants created a giant underground oven traditionally known as an Imu. A full ton of pork was placed in the ground and cooked overnight to prepare for the huge event. The entire traditional process was done by Habilitat participants in an effort to perpetuate Hawaiian Culture. Caputured here, from start to completion, this traditional cooking method has been used for thousands of years by Polynesians for various celebrations.