Hawai‘i’s Community Cookbook has over 600 delicious recipes from the islands’ most treasured community cookbooks.

Back in the day, most cooks did not keep written recipes. The community cookbook became a way to preserve culinary and cultural traditions from generation to generation. As more people arrived in the islands from other countries, they became neighbors and generously shared their food with each other. The cookbooks they compiled reflected Hawaii's diverse communities and how different cuisines were melded. Some spread the mission for organizations of every type — schools, business groups, civic groups, churches, quilting guilds, choirs, hospitals, and more.

This anthology of recipes, selected from fifty community cookbooks, invites the home cook to a statewide potluck with an abundance of personality.