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Furoshiki, for carrying casseroles
By Pam Woolway - The Garden Island
When Donna Fuji isn’t at ‘Ele‘ele school working five days a week in her new position as student service coordinator, you can find her poised before her sewing machine making furoshiki to sell at the craft fairs. Her furoshiki are colorful fabric casserole carriers.
“In Japan they’d use a big scarf that’s called a furoshiki,” said Fuji. “They tie the two corners together to carry their gift of food to a friend.”
Donna’s American version of this Japanese tradition is a large colorful square of fabric. “At two ends I have a handle,” she said. “On the other two corners are ‘D’ rings.”
To use, just place a dish in the center and fold the corners of the square toward the center to loop the handles through the rings.
“I made it a lot larger so you can fit two 9-by-13 inch cake pans,” she said.
Fuji will be selling her furoshiki from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Kaua‘i Handworks craft fair in Wilcox School cafeteria.
Kaua‘i Handworks is an all juried craft fair that is in its 26th year. “This is my fourth year,” said Fuji.
She’ll also have her cookbook for sale. “I made a cookbook for each of my kids when they left for college,” she said.
Fuji is reprinting the first one, which was the most popular edition.
Fuji first saw furoshiki when she received one as a gift from her husband’s auntie. “She gave me a custard pie in it,” said Fuji. “So I started to make them for teachers at Institute Days.”
Fuji is known mostly on the Westside as a third-grade teacher. “I’ve been at ‘Ele‘ele School for 24 years,” she said. “I started the craft fair there and began making crafts just so there’d be someone at a booth.”
This festive carrier is a colorful alternative to the random plastic bag you might use to schlepp a dish to potluck and it’s easier to transport. “You can carry your casserole in one hand,” said Fuji.
By running your hand through the fabric strap, the furoshiki snugs around the pan securely.
“In Japan they’d use a big scarf that’s called a furoshiki,” said Fuji. “They tie the two corners together to carry their gift of food to a friend.”
Donna’s American version of this Japanese tradition is a large colorful square of fabric. “At two ends I have a handle,” she said. “On the other two corners are ‘D’ rings.”
To use, just place a dish in the center and fold the corners of the square toward the center to loop the handles through the rings.
“I made it a lot larger so you can fit two 9-by-13 inch cake pans,” she said.
Fuji will be selling her furoshiki from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Kaua‘i Handworks craft fair in Wilcox School cafeteria.
Kaua‘i Handworks is an all juried craft fair that is in its 26th year. “This is my fourth year,” said Fuji.
She’ll also have her cookbook for sale. “I made a cookbook for each of my kids when they left for college,” she said.
Fuji is reprinting the first one, which was the most popular edition.
Fuji first saw furoshiki when she received one as a gift from her husband’s auntie. “She gave me a custard pie in it,” said Fuji. “So I started to make them for teachers at Institute Days.”
Fuji is known mostly on the Westside as a third-grade teacher. “I’ve been at ‘Ele‘ele School for 24 years,” she said. “I started the craft fair there and began making crafts just so there’d be someone at a booth.”
This festive carrier is a colorful alternative to the random plastic bag you might use to schlepp a dish to potluck and it’s easier to transport. “You can carry your casserole in one hand,” said Fuji.
By running your hand through the fabric strap, the furoshiki snugs around the pan securely.
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Ronald Pray wrote on Oct 17, 2009 5:14 AM:
I am a former U.S. Coast Guard Search and rescue team member at Barbers Point. I never read the scathing November 28 article about a rescue I did in 1977 while on leave.
In November of 1977 I had visited Kauai on leave and hiked the Na Pali coast to go camping. On the trail I saw some hikers in front of me ignore the cries of a man saying he was poisoned by mushrooms he had eaten. I know that there are many poisonous varieties from the orange mushrooms to the copelandia varieties which are deadly. I stopped and he was vomitting and telling me that he was dying. I laid my sleeping bag down onto the ground and made him comfortable then lit my coleman stove and cooked him soup to eat. He ate the soup and continued vomitting. He said that he needed immediate attention. I ecouraged him to vommit everything out of his stomache.
I asked him if he would be OK while I ran back to Haena for help and he said please do that.
I ran from his location sometimes skipping the zig-zags in the trails steep inclines jumping straight down to the trail below. I had injured my Achilles tendon by twisting my ankle which put me on light duty upon returning to Barbers Point.
I then knocked on the first door I found and asked them to contact the U.S. Coast Guard that there was a man stranded on the trail who needed immediate attention.
The Fire Department went in on the trail and found the man walking out on his own. This is why the writer in 1977 claimed that I had misread the situation and that is why he called my rescue "The Rescue that wasn't". I believe that had that man died, his death would have been on my ticket and given that rescuing folks was my business I had a responsibility to perform.
We may never know what part my inducing vomiting played in the recovery of this man. I'd like to believe that it played a major role in his quick recovery.
I am proud that I stood for the highest traditions of the U.S. Coast Guard on that fateful day on the Na Pali Coast.To this day, I have a lump in my Achilles Tendon which hurts on certain days to remind me of that day I ran into that man.
Malama Pono,
Former 3rd Class Petty Officer Ronald Pray "