Kona Coffee Farm Kitchen
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
Kona Coffee Farm Kitchen
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This is a traditional Japanese kitchen in the home of a Kona coffee farmer between the years of 1920 to 1930. The floor in this kitchen was wooden; but more commonly, it would have been packed earth. Notice the sooty walls from the Kudo (wood burning cook stove). The Kudo did not have a chimney so the smoke escaped through the open slatted wall. If the breeze was not right the room would fill with smoke. Rice was the staple of their diet, the Hagama (rice cooker) sits in a spot especially designed for it over the fire. There was no refrigeration; food was dried, pickled, smoked or salted to preserve it.
This kitchen is in the home of the Uchida Family and is now part of the Kona Coffee Living History Farm. Built in 1925 out of scrap lumber from a previous home on the location, three generations of the family lived here and worked this coffee farm. The grounds and home were turned into a living history museum after 1994 when the last of the family moved out. No major changes were done on the house in all that time. The family was still cooking on an open wood fire with an outhouse and bathhouse in the back yard at the time they moved off the farm.
The Kona Coffee Living History Farm is located in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Copyright 2017 Susn Rissi Tregoning
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October 14th, 2017
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