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  • noun New Zealand A traditional Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven.

Etymologies

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Maori hāngi

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Examples

  • A hangi is a pit of rocks that are heated by fire, then covered with food and dirt.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • William later went sailing on Auckland Harbour, taking the helm of a New Zealand America's Cup yacht and on Sunday night was to be hosted at a traditional indigenous Maori "hangi" meal cooked in a pit in the ground.

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  • William later went sailing on Auckland Harbour, taking the helm of a New Zealand America's Cup yacht and on Sunday night was to be hosted at a traditional indigenous Maori "hangi" meal cooked in a pit in the ground.

    Raw Story 2010

  • William later went sailing on Auckland Harbour, taking the helm of a New Zealand America's Cup yacht and on Sunday night was to be hosted at a traditional indigenous Maori "hangi" meal cooked in a pit in the ground.

    Raw Story 2010

  • He will later go sailing on Auckland Harbour in a New Zealand America's Cup yacht and have a traditional indigenous Maori "hangi" meal cooked in a pit in the ground.

    Channel NewsAsia Front Page News 2010

  • William later went sailing on Auckland Harbour, taking the helm of a New Zealand America's Cup yacht and on Sunday night was to be hosted at a traditional indigenous Maori "hangi" meal cooked in a pit in the ground.

    Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010

  • So I went to a Maori cultural night where they fed us food from a hangi which is an oven dug into the ground where they heat up large rocks put the food in, and cover the hole back up with the dirt used to make the hole and then it cooks for several hours on the hot rocks.

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  • And since we've tried some of the food cooked in those ovens (a traditional Maori "hangi" meal that included chicken, cabbage, taro, etc.) we can testify that it is delicious.

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  • Enjoy a traditional 'hangi' meal and warm hospitality on a

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  • Rhino, dig me a hangi pit with the guns, big fella.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Sweet jeebus, lookit this mess! 2009

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  • "'Will you look at that bird, almost directly ahead, at some thirty-five degrees of elevation? I believe it to be a hangi. They are said to be peculiar to this island.'"

    --Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 69

    February 15, 2008

  • Hey, thanks--another bird wird! This was apparently a bird that nested at Filfla (Malta) but nowhere else (that anyone knows about). I don't think it exists anymore. :-(

    February 15, 2008

  • 'Hangi actually refers to the method of cooking in the ground with hot stones, or to the underground oven so created, and to the food so cooked.'

    - About.com

    Hangi is a tradition of New Zealand Maori.

    March 31, 2008

  • Patrick O'Brian!

    May 5, 2008

  • ...yes. Do you like O'Brian, Jrome?

    May 5, 2008