These are a play on both sweet-and-sour pork ribs and char sui made with pork tenderloin, which were both staples of pupu platters in tiki bars. A homemade sweet-and-sour sauce — akin to American ...

There’s an old maxim that every culture has a version of chicken soup. I’m adding an addendum to that commonplace canon: agrodolce. In Italian, it’s sour (agro) and sweet (dolce); in French, ...