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Snorkeling in the early morning, I was often one of the first people in the water, floating solo above humuhumunukunukuapua’a, or reef triggerfish, as they fed off the coral.

They named it Humu after the Humuhumunukunukuapua`a, the state fish of Hawaii, where Crosby and Bock met, but also because of its similar sound to words such as humor, humility and human.

The grand finale of Kapalua Wine & Food is a seafood extravaganza, with signature dishes from 14 of Maui’s top restaurants, including The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua’s Banyan Tree and Kai, The Grand Wailea’s Humuhumunukunukuapua’a, and Wailea’s relative newcomer Migrant, helmed by rising star Sheldon Simeon.

Humuhumunukunukuapua'a—we call it the triggerfish in English—that's a very long word but it's made up entirely of, like aloha, either syllables that are one vowel sound or syllables that are a consonant sound followed by a vowel sound.