On The Lamb: Local Holiday Roasts to Put on Your Table This Season
Pono Provisions offers an exciting variety of local meats, including Big Island lamb and goat, plus pork cheeks, lard and guavawood-smoked barbacoa.
December 17, 2020
Clockwise from top right: porchetta made with Mountain View Farm-raised pork belly, goat leg and rack of lamb, both from animals raised by Aloha Spirits of Hawai‘i Farm and Craft Distillery in Kea‘au, Big Island. Photo: Martha Cheng.
“When I stop failing, I’ll get there,” says Robert McGee, owner of Pono Provisions. “I have to fail a few more times.” Few other chefs in Honolulu have opened and closed as many businesses as McGee in the past decade. And with each new start, he inches closer to his goal of realizing a local meat system. He’s getting there the only way he knows how: by going whole hog. Literally.