 ::I understand your point  and I agree to an extent, but native cuisine did not end with the arrival of Europeans. Much of it has been adapted and integrated and even revolutionized in Hawaii Regional Cuisine, for example. Just reading about Native Hawaiian cuisine as if it is some fixed entity that existed in the past is disingenous. Like any cuisine is changed, adapted, modernized, and adjusted with the times. Roy's was started by a native Hawaiian. So the removal of all the content related to western contact, settlement, immigration, and the plantation economy is misguided. Cuisine is never fixed in time. Even the core native cuisine items were in fact imported (taro from which poi (food) is made is not indigenous to Hawaii). I think we should be careful about idealizing or mythologizing.   