How do you like your... povi masima?
I grew up in Hawaii, and like a lot of us raised outside of Samoa, my siblings and I were exposed to a wide variety of culinary delights (which sadly included big macs and pop tarts) and we never full...
Fa'alifu Kalo: Make Samoan style coconut cream taro
We start by choosing a good piece of taro and end up with a delicious Samoan staple that goes great with your favourite meat dish.
Tama a Samoa - A modern classic of Samoan music
I normally don't respond to angry comments but not only was this one from the owner of the copyrights, he happened to be someone I know in person - who obviously didn't realize who was behind this blunder.
A Traditional Samoan Wedding, with a Tangent about Making Babies
I should really put the word "traditional" in quotation marks, because what is traditional anymore? I've heard some stories about weddings back in the ancient, less Christian days of Samoa. Don't quote me on this stuff, but...
Samoan Etiquette - Meal Time
When I was in high school my family moved to New Zealand so we could live close to my ageing grandmother. An added bonus was that just about all my mother's 8 siblings (and their children, and their children's children) lived in the same neighbourhood
The Samoan way
The fact that I wasn’t raised in Samoa was the source of a lot of problems I had with my parents growing up… except I didn’t know it till later… till I was at university trying to connect with this popular group of Samoans from Samoa and realized that I had trouble relating to th
Recipe: REAL Samoan Panipopo!
I heard something disturbing this morning. One of my girls told me that she was Googling recipes for panipopo and came across some that called for store-bought, ready-made dough.. which you would then...