BIG ISLAND
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The 3 most popular cooking classes on the Big Island. What they actually deliver, who runs them, and what they cost.
Hands-on Hawaiian imu cooking in Pāhoa: build an underground oven, uncover it, then enjoy kalua pig and island favorites in 4 hours.
“Friendly people impressive experience”
A 4-hour plant-based farm-to-table cooking class at Kulaniapia Falls on Hawaii’s Big Island. Harvest lunch ingredients and cook together.
“The activity was educational and enjoyable. The area is incredible and the farm and picking the vegetables and leaning about the operation and the people that work there was fun. Though we prepped the vegetables the actual cooking was done by one of the volunteer/workers which I wish we could have done more of but…”
Bake Baumstriezel over a Big Island campfire with tastings and Hawaiian-German history, rain-proof pavilion included for $65.
“We booked the Baumstriezel baking in coordination with a free tour of Baumkuchen Farm on the same day. It was a great combination. Our hosts were so welcoming and excelled at explaining their baumkuchen product and process, showing us their farm’s other produce, and then guiding us through baking our own baumstriezel over the fire.…”
