Sarah Vowell Book Trailer: The History Of Hawaii Illustrated In Plate Lunches (VIDEO)

Sarah Vowell's new book, "Unfamiliar Fishes," is taking an unconventional approach to the book trailer. Here's the history of Hawaii illustrated by plate lunches. Any other book trailers you love? Let us know.

Comments

[AZdesertdog]

01:24 PM on 03/09/2011

no chicken long rice, lomi lomi salmon, or huli huli chicken?

blasphemy!!

[Thomas Bradley]

04:35 PM on 03/09/2011

These aren't plate lunches as we all know and love them. It's food used as illustrations.
Still cool, tho.

[COPESTIR3]

11:45 AM on 03/09/2011

I love Hawaii. Every time I go , I really don't feel I am on vacation until I have my plate lunch and a spam musubi. Aloha!
Besides, Hawaii is like Texas. While they are states, they will alway really be a nations, or a state of mind.

[Alice Radley]

03:32 PM on 03/08/2011

I've never been to Hawaii, so I've never had an authentic plate lunch. But I have gone to a L&L Bbq restaurant. I like their mixed grilled with rice, macaroni salad, plus a side of spam musubi. Oh so wrong, by oh so right. It satisfies a very specific craving.

[climbing panda]

02:18 PM on 03/08/2011

for the record, you will NEVER find a plate lunch that looks even remotely like any of the things in the video.

also, her description of the loco moco isn't quite correct. it is hamburger steak on rice topped with two, usually easy over, eggs and smothered in gravy. i then smother that in ketchup. fricken ono!

[Alice Radley]

11:17 AM on 03/09/2011

I think the plate lunches we're created for illustrative and visual effect.

[climbing panda]

01:37 PM on 03/09/2011

which would be why i said, "for the record" as some people might see this video and think that we eat like that on a daily basis.

[icstars]

01:27 AM on 03/08/2011

Her book "The Wordy Shipmates" is fantastic.

[PDinCA]

02:43 AM on 03/08/2011

Yes, it is. She's great.

[liberalbug]

09:33 PM on 03/07/2011

Who says eating out has to be expensive in the islands. 4-7 bucks just about anywhere will get you a fill you up all day plate lunch. Just don't swim for at least an hour after partaking in a plate lunch. You will sink.

[Niklas Schlappkohl]

10:39 AM on 03/08/2011

Actually, that's an old wives´ tale. Recent studies have proven that you can eat right before jumping in the water without anything happening to you.

[Thomas Bradley]

04:42 PM on 03/09/2011

"Just don't swim for at least an hour after partaking in a plate lunch. You will sink."

I beg to differ -- the carb load and fats will keep you floating for hours on end!

[DanoX]

08:48 PM on 03/07/2011

Sarah is SEXY!!! Even my wife says so!

[Bolt McFarland]

08:42 PM on 03/07/2011

BEST GRINDS FOR PLATE LUNCH AT THE WAILANA COFFEE HOUSE ON ENA RD AND ALA MOANA. USED TO LIVE STEPS AWAY IN THE WAIPUNA BUILDING.

[kapalabhati]

08:05 PM on 03/07/2011

She's a pistol. Love her.

[Marianna Scheffer]

06:30 PM on 03/07/2011

This is awful. But I am allergic to cute.

[maxfax]

06:13 PM on 03/07/2011

Interesting, clever, just doesn't look very palatable.

[Joyce Louden]

06:03 PM on 03/07/2011

PLEASE, I is "Aloha 'Oe", not Aloha way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffVt0qWlYu4&feature=related

[IonaTrailer]

11:27 AM on 03/08/2011

"Aloha Oe.
You smell like poi"
We used to sing dat in school - small kid time.

[Joyce Louden]

11:57 AM on 03/08/2011

Ah, hanabata days! ;^)

[fcs4usc]

05:38 PM on 03/07/2011

Is that Joanne Silberner from NPR narrating? Or that othe woman who does short stories on "This American Life"?

[lylacour]

05:54 PM on 03/07/2011

I'm pretty sure it was Sarah Vowell who was narrating.

[sloppybear16]

05:59 PM on 03/07/2011

It's Sarah Vowell.

[fcs4usc]

05:35 PM on 03/07/2011

Mixed plate" at Rainbow Drive-In...Mmmmmmmmmmm

[nomoredead]

06:45 PM on 03/07/2011

Ahhhhh...I used to live on Kapahulu years ago.

[IonaTrailer]

11:28 AM on 03/08/2011

Loco Moco at the DL Drive-In in Hilo - Mmmmmm

[oldgraymare]

08:11 PM on 03/07/2011

Truly, there is NOT MUCH in this world better than the mixed plate at Rainbow DI......unless you are a devotee of Libby's manapua (in the pretty pink boxes!). Grew up in Honolulu, left after high school, back in the early 2000's for a few years, son lives there now (USMC).....and not a day goes by that I don't have a fond memory....soooo many ono grinds!!

[ProgressivePicon86]

04:49 PM on 03/07/2011

Despite the fact that she might be butchering some Hawaiian words/names (which I do not fault her on because its hard for anybody who hasn't had a Hawaiian upbringing pronounce the language correctly); I give her props for the innovative history lesson on Hawaii.

[strawberryjulius]

11:31 PM on 03/07/2011

Yea. I thought it was this was a really cute and funny video. I was impressed with her pronunciation of Hawaiian words. It could have been much worse. She still makes the mistake of using "Hawaiian" incorrectly, saying "the first Hawaiian born President" instead of "first Hawaii-born President" or "first President from Hawaii." I know it's nitpicking but I run into this constantly and it's my pet peeve. In the Islands, Hawaiian means the ethnicity Native Hawaiian.

Ex: "Supported by a Hawaii-born president friendly to their cause" -- Honolulu Advertiser