Synopsis: Taking pictures of your food and sending them to friends, whether in real life or in cyberspace, is really just a high-tech way to play with food. Researchers in California are claiming there’s a link between taking and sending pictures of food to others and an improvement in taste for the sender. But what does it do for the receiver? To some, however, playing with food is a violation of cultural norms.
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Aloha mai käkou e nä hoa puni æai. Mai, mai, mai i Kauakükalahale nei e æai ai!
Eia mai nö ka loina i paæa iaæu, ke kaæalo i mua o ka hale o ka poæe Hawaiæi, ka poæe i maæa i nä loina hoæokipa malihini, e hänai æia mai nö a puæu ka nuku, a hewa ka waha, a pöhalakë nö kä hoæi ka æöpü. Eia naæe, æaæohe nö paha e mäæona ka æöpü i ka haupa aku o ka maka i kekahi kiæi!
æAæohe ola i laila! Pëlä naæe ka manaæo o kekahi poæe puni paæi kiæi i kä läkou meaæai me ka hoæouna aku hoæi i ua kiæi nei i ko läkou poæe hoa. He aha lä hoæi ka mea e hana ai pëlä? He hoæowalewale paha ka hana? He kaena nö paha i ka loaæa mai nei o kahi hakina meaæai? Wahi a kekahi poæe noiæi o ke Kulanui o Sana Diego, he hana ia e piæi ai ka æono o ia meaæai ke æai maoli aku.
I loko o nä makahiki he helu wale æia nö i hala aæe nei, ua lilo ia hana he hana punia na ka poæe puni kelepona paæa lima. æAæohe hilahila o ua poæe nei i ke komo aku i kahi haleæaina me ka æoka aku i pä meaæai, a i ka lawelawe æia mai e ke kuene, he paæi kiæi aku nö ka hana, me ka hoæouna pü aku i ua kiæi nei i nä hoa puni kelepona mai æö a æö. A he aha hoæi ka hana a ua poæe meæomeæo meaæai nei? He mäkilo paha? æAæole nö e hiki iä läkou ke ‘ai. He æai wale nö ia na ka noæonoæo. He hana æino paha ia, he hoæohaehae i ka loli kaæe. æAæohe wahi æano o ka lokomaikaæi a loaæa mai ma o ka lawelawe i ia hana.
Ua æike maka au i kekahi poæe i ka paæi kiæi æana i kä läkou meaæai ma loko o ka hale æaina, a kupu mai ka manaæo ë he hana kohu æole nö këlä. Ma ka hänai maæemaæe æana i ke keiki, æaæole hoæomanawanui æia ka päæani wale æana me ka meaæai. He æai ka hana a he mahalo i ka loaæa, no ka mea, he kupuna ka æai no ka poæe Hawaiæi. æO Häloa kona inoa, a æaæole nö e hoæohana æia æo ia ma ke æano i mea hoæohaehae aku i nä hoa kanaka. Maliæa o æölelo mai kekahi mea puni paæi kiæi ë he hana æia këlä i mea e hoæohanohano ai i ka meaæai. æAæohe oæu puni. Na ka puni wale e käkoæo i ia manaæo.
Wahi a këlä poæe noiæi ma Sana Diego, na ka æike pili o kä läkou papahana noiæi e höæike mai nei i ka hoæonui æia o ka æono o ka poæe paæi kiæi i kä läkou meaæai e paæi kiæi ai. æEä, he kanaka æono au i nä æano meaæai like æole he nui, a æaæole au e hoæokano i kahi meaæai, eia naæe, æaæohe wahi æono o ia mea he ake a he hana nui ka naunau a me ka moni æana i ia mea.
Aia nö paha ka pono æo ke alapoho wale æana iho i ia mea. A inä æo ia wale nö ka mea loaæa, æaæole au e hoæokano, a æaæole nö au e paæi kiæi me ka manaæo e æoi aku ana kona æono. He æohana ka æai. He läæau ka æai. He hoæokupu hoæi na nä akua. æAæole ia he mea päæani a he mea paha e paæi kiæi ai.
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This column is coordinated by Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa.
