Hawaii Cooks with Spam: Local Recipes Featuring Our Favorite Canned Meat

Easy to follow recipes.

I live in Honolulu, and I'm exposed to every variety of Spam day in and day out. It's just an ordinary thing, something you don't think about much as an ingredient in better cuisine. Cuisine? Spam? Can you say the two in the same sentence?Yes, you can, and this book proves it, with wonderful recipes that bring out the best in Spam and evoke local Hawaiian color and culture. The recipes are for the most part easy to follow, accurate, and illustrated with great color photos. The variety is wide; you'll develop your own favorites, but they're just about all good and will amaze you with the versatility hidden inside that familar can.If you live in Hawai`i, you'll know what I'm talking about. If you're elsewhere, and want to experience the real thing, this is it. It's not hula girls and pineapples and swaying palm trees; it's the food that people here eat all the time and love it. I think you will too.

this is really a beautiful book with great attention to detail and very readable. Using it is a pleasure. Everything about it has the feel of Japanese quality & attention to detail. The spiral binder is a neat touch allowing you to easily keep the book open to the page of interest. I really can't praise this book enough. The range of menus goes from Island favorites, all American favorites, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, French, Italian, Korean, Mexican, Portuguese, Thai and Vietnamese.

Giving it to Pine Ridge Rez for they love SPAM like HAM and they could really use this cookbook for variety in their lives. If any of you wish to contribute books to the Kyle Senior Center/Roy Martinez P.O. Box 605 Kyle, South Dakota 57752 They need everything! Diapers, socks, childrens clothes and books, propane, electric help, etc.

If you're even considering this cookbook, you're most likely already familiar with such Hawaiian local staples as SPAM musubi and saimin with SPAM. Which means you're also most likely a fan of SPAM.Which means you would like this book anyway, as goofy a concept as it might seem on the surface. But let me tell you this, on top of that:Despite the rather unorthodox main ingredient which this cookbook offers up, the PHOTOGRAPHY is about the best out of any cookbook I own. Even if you hate SPAM or would never even think about cooking anything in here, it's fun to just flip through the pages to look at the whimsical presentations they've come up with. Endless fun.And if you like SPAM, the recipes are actually very, very good.

Gave this as a gift to my newly independent 20 yo son as he thinks Spam is part of the basic food groups here in Hawaii. He has made a bunch of recipes and they have turned out well I've heard (I haven't jumped on the Spam-wagon yet....) so if my son, whom I wouldn't trust using a toaster alone in my house, can make these recipes then anyone can...

This is one of the best SPAM cookbooks I've ever seen. Lots of beautiful pictures, suggestions on how to use SPAM. Honestly, I am not a huge SPAM fan, but my husband and Mom are. So I am trying. The cookbook has a spiral back and flaps that you can use to save your place in the cookbook. There are some silly "helpful" cooking hints along the way, but that doesn't detract from the recipes and beautiful pictures!

I purchased this book for my husband's 40th anniversary present. He is going to love it. We lived in the islands for 6 years and fell in love with spam again after having it alot in our childhood. The book is really well written and the recipes easy. Thank you for such a great boook.