BRUCE ASATO / [email protected] Arnold Hiura’s favorite dish is a plantation-days staple of sardines and warabi, or fiddlehead fern shoots. "One of the reasons I thought about this dish ...

Crabbe fondly recalls camping on the Big Island at Kalahui Puaa and picking warabi (fern shoots) in Onomea. She also enjoyed watching “Dark Shadows,” a ’60s soap opera about vampires, with her grandma ...

Some examples are the swamp Fern and “Warabi”. The swamp Fern, Ceratopreris thalictroides, ... Fern shoots add an exotic touch to vegetable and pork dishes along with bamboo shoots.

Delicate lengths of fern frond rise from the edges of shallow streams around Kaua‘i. Warabi, a member of the bracken fern family, is easy to prepare and is accessible. While it does grow wild ...

That is, it comes from the roots of the bracken fern, and is sometimes referred to as bracken starch—but it’s most often used in Japan, where the plant is called warabi, hence the more common ...

After decades away from a lifestyle he loves, wordsmith Arnold Hiura finally returned home in 2012 to Papaikou, the town of his childhood on Hawaii island. It had been a long time coming.