by Ludovic EHRET The caviar on the menu of Michelin-starred restaurants may come from an unexpected place: China. The country has endured embarrassing…
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Nine days are hardly enough to explore the beauty and serenity of Hawaii. This 50th state of America, after all, consists of eight different islands, each with its own natural attractions.
The Hawaii of our imagination—fed by movies like “50 First Dates,” “Blue Crush,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”—looks a lot like the Hawaii of my vacation. Pristine beaches, crystalline waters, good-looking people with a kind word for tourists, and beautiful plants—everywhere you look, it’s a tropical paradise.
With my bare hands, I helped build Hawaii,” declares Lilo Bonipasyo, a sakada or migrant laborer who sailed to Hawaii in 1925, in the book by Filipino-Hawaiian scholar Virgilio Menor Felipe, “Hawai’i: A Pilipino Dream.”