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Kalua

2 stages from Hawaiian to English.

Today it means a traditional Hawaiian cooking method using an underground oven, or food prepared this way
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Stage 1 of 2
kalua
Hawaiian · ancient
"to cook in an underground oven"
literally to cook in an underground oven, a traditional method using heated stones
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Stage 2 of 2
kalua
English · 1900s
"food cooked in a traditional Hawaiian underground oven"
adopted directly for the traditional Hawaiian method of pit-cooking, especially pork
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