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This Chef Cooks the Food I Want to Eat Forever

Sheldon Simeon shows that Hawaiian food is accessible—and, of course, incredibly tasty.

Published February 9, 2022

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Marylane Studios

I have never watched an episode of Top Chef. I am a typical white person who went to Hawai’i on my honeymoon. I loved it, and I loved the food. So when I heard about chef Sheldon Simeon’s now incredibly successful cookbook, Cook Real Hawai’i, I was intrigued, despite not being as aware of him as I should have been. (And after talking with him, I’m even more embarrassed.)

The book arrived, and I was immediately captivated. Simeon is in love with his home—he was born and raised on the Big Island—and that love flows from the pages in his introduction and his history of Hawai’i, both of which I eagerly read in full. It almost reads like a mini-memoir; it’s transporting.

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