Kamano Lomi

From the historic (but unrecorded) occasion when a Hawaiian sailor off a whaler entered an eatery on the Pacific Northwest coast of America and tasted salmon, it was love at first bite. The first tasting could equally well have occurred in the islands, for salted salmon—similar to lox—was being shipped to Hawai’i as early as 1830. In whatever manner the acquaintance took place, the affection blossomed into a full-fledged love affair with the fish. Hawaiians undertook salmon-fishing trips to