UH student chefs battle in statewide culinary competition
Kapiʻolani CC won the inaugural University of Hawaiʻi Culinary Institute of the Pacific Brewing Future Minds Statewide Competition and the $9,000 first prize.
Maui native studies health and wellness in Europe
Kapiʻolani CC student and culinary arts major Eunice Yamada was awarded the Council on International Exchange’s Global Scholar grant to study in Europe.
Culinary education gets $100,000 boost
Alvin H.L. Chung pledged $100,000 to support the Culinary Institute of the Pacific at Diamond Head.
New Kapi‘olani CC food truck delivers summer meals to keiki
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.
Better beer and bread: endless culinary possibilities for state’s first culinology student
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.
Hawai’i CC culinary arts, ag programs help provide meals to evacuees
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.
Inmates graduate from Kapiʻolani CC culinary class
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.
Diamond Head Market and Grill’s Kelvin Ro pledges $1M for Culinary Institute of the Pacific
In recognition of this pledge the Open Kitchen in the Signature Restaurant will be named the “Kelvin Ro and Diamond Head Market and Grill Open Kitchen.”
Leeward CC faculty and graduate rake in the awards
Faculty members, Tommylynn Benavente and Roy Kamida, and graduate Shaylyn Funasaki receive recognition for success in their fields.
Takitani Foundation $1M gift supports Culinary Institute of the Pacific
This gift will help UH reach its goal of raising $10 million in private donations for the state-of-the-art facility.
