Kapiʻolani CC won the inaugural University of Hawaiʻi Culinary Institute of the Pacific Brewing Future Minds Statewide Competition and the $9,000 first prize.
Kapiʻolani CC student and culinary arts major Eunice Yamada was awarded the Council on International Exchange’s Global Scholar grant to study in Europe.
Throughout the year, the health and wellness food truck will provide preventive health education and screening in a range of community settings to children and families in low-income and outlying communities.
Alan Martin will be the first graduate of the four-year program, with institutional food service management at Kapiʻolani CC and food science and human nutrition-culinology from UH Mānoa.
Hawaiʻi CC has partnered with The Salvation Army to provide meals to residents displaced by the Puna lava flow and Kīlauea ash eruption who are staying at emergency shelters in Pāhoa and Keaʻau.
Conrad Nonaka’s passion for culinary education was legendary and his generosity and humility comprised his brand, which forged lasting relationships for the Culinary Institute of the Pacific.
Four women from the Women’s Community Correctional Center culinary arts certificates and held a special graduation luncheon featuring some of the 5-star quality cuisine they learned to create.