Tag: Kohala
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Hawaiian Pie Company Honors Great-Grandfather’s Baking Legacy
In the mid-1930s, Yoshio Hori opened a bakery in Kohala on Hawai‘i Island, selling pastries, breads, cookies and pies. He meant to name the bakery after himself, but it became a westernized version of the Japanese name due to a packaging order miscommunication. His son, Richard Sr., recalls, “My father told (the salesman) the name…