In the Hawaiian language, the word kalua describes cooking underground in an oven or pit which is exactly how the pork is prepared: An entire pig is cooked for hours in an earthen oven ...

Another hermit, Carleton Banfill, came to Hawaii as a young man during the ... He wore clothes made from burlap sacks, ate wild goats and pigs he caught in snares and killed with his cane knife ...

The last shipment of live pigs from the US mainland—at least for the foreseeable future—has docked in Hawaii. For decades, pigs have been subjected to an arduous week-long journey by truck and ship to ...