Poke is Hawaii in a bowl. Each ingredient bares the farmland, ocean and volcanoes that created and sustain the archipelago. Poke contains the waters around O’ahu through cubes of deep reddish-pink ahi ...

I’ve never been to Hawaii, not even back when the main ingredient in its national dish, poke, was part of my diet. So now that poke shops are proliferating on the mainland, I have to confess that I ...