Post #328441 by Okolehao on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 7:50 AM

Some of you may have been following my post asking for an authentic okolehao recipe and the ingredients to make it. I now have a nursery man contact, who has the ti root, in Hawaii that has been working on the project. He has been keeping be updated on his quest. He's become like Indiana Jones drying to get the the information. He sent me this incredible email the other day:

"Aloha,

I am still on the hunt for your Okolehao recipe. I have an appointment next Monday with a direct decendant of Queen Ka'ahumanu. I have to four wheel drive in to see her, she still lives on land that King Kamehameha set aside for certain people. I talked with her momentarily on the phone. I mentioned the recipe that you emailed me and she said not rice, they used ripe bread fruit. She still has the ti plants that her grandfather planted to make Okolehao. I guess he’s long dead and the plants are very old. So, wish me luck, maybe she will let me dig one up.

Garry"

The plot thickens!