Avocado Sea Foam with Cucumber Outrigger Canoes and a Cargo of Shrimp and Lobster

No book on Pacific food would be complete for North Americans without one of those extravagant and ostentatious presentations representing the glamour and romance of ocean voyages to the Hawaiian Islands in the 1930s. This is for fun. This is the type of dish presented in a Matson Navigation Company’s opulent buffet in those days when a cruise to Hawai’i was a fashionable adventure. It was a culture and time where lives were dominated by a quest for continuing gaiety, everybody was perpetua