The underground cooking method that was a staple at family gatherings growing up has become a passion for the 34-year-old Nakahashi, who shares the method not only as a way to popularize Hawaiian ...

“We have never had a perfect imu,” Honolulu chef Ed Kenney told me. I took it as a Zen statement, that perfection is never attainable. But no, Kenney really meant it. What would be a perfect imu? I ...

John Reppun has the art of the imu down to a science and every year he passes on his expertise to as many as 100 volunteers. Mika Gascon, 15, places a rock taken from last year’s imu pitonto a pallet.

The world’s oldest barbecue tradition is cooking meat in underground pits. It’s a method so old, that our ancestors cooked mammoths in underground pits some 29,000 years ago. In modern day Texas, meat ...

This holiday season, consider cooking a locally grown holiday feast in an imu. Imu is the name for a traditional Hawaiian underground oven. These ovens provided an energy efficient way of cooking ...

North Kohala inaugurated a commercial imu in a ceremony in late November that advanced a years-long dream of local residents to help make the community food-sustainable, tapping a grant that had its ...