Douglas Tanaka is a Honolulu-based food writer and the Rice Bowls & Island Plates Editor at The Cooking Recipe. For 26 years, he has championed the island comfort foods of Hawaii: plate lunches, steaming rice bowls, and the vibrant flavors of local-style cooking. Born into a family that ran a plate lunch counter near Honolulu Harbor for two generations, Doug learned early that the heart of any plate is the rice, and the soul is the mac salad. He measures a cook by those two things, in that order
