Our Culinary Team that recently won the gold medal at the American Culinary Federation’s (ACF) Regional Competition is gearing up for the National Competition, this July in Orlando, Florida.

The team will be at Island Olive Oil Company (Ward Village) doing a live demonstration to raise funds for their travels. They will be creating a menu that uses Island Olive Oil Company’s products in a collaborative effort to additionally bolster sales to support the team. A portion of the daily sales will go towards funding the team.

Date: This Saturday, June 3
Time: 12 pm to 3 pm
Place: Island Olive Oil Company
Address: (Ward Village) 1200 Ala Moana Blvd #412, Honolulu, HI 96814

Support the team and taste their delicious creations for free! 

• Crispy pork belly with jalapeño lime sweet and sour, pomegranate caviar and Thai basil.
• Honey-Ginger glazed koroneiki extra virgin olive oil cake with candied grapefruit and lemon thyme
• Pistachio ice cream with pistachio blood orange olive oil tuile….and more!

We’ve got Disney at the Bookstore!!!  We’re launching a collection of Disney backpacks by JanSport with a 10% discount, through June 30th.  Visit the Bookstore dressed in your Disney style for special discount on June 5th.

 

Tickets:

http://windwardcce.org/paliku-theatre

Coolin’aire – Culinary Jazz Odyssey      

Le’ahi Concept Kitchen  

Be on the look out for our Culinary program and students in todayʻs Crave section of the Honolulu Star Advertiser.

The winner of Chef James Aptakin’s 2017 World Food Championship’s Golden Ticket Competition, Yim Martinez, will travel with Chef Aptakin and his team to Orange Beach, Alabama (in November) where they will compete in the World Food Championships.

The World Food Championships is the largest competition in food sport, where champions of previous events convene for a chance at winning the ultimate food crown and a share of $300,000. The World Food Championships platform ranges from live-event integration and acivations to a robust multimedia platform that serves culinary stars, home cooks, brands and destinations. In four short years, WFC has awarded more than $1 million in prizes and money, spawned a TV series, garnered more than 5 billion media impressions and launched numerous professional careers for successful contestants.

In observance of the Memorial Day holiday, the OSA & Kamōkila Center will be closed on Monday, May 29, 2017. We will resume summer hours on Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Thanks!

Kapiʻolani CC’s very own, Jan Fried celebrated the official launch of American Sign Language (ASL) tours at the Waikiki Aquarium as part of her project entitled Project WĀIʻA: Waikiki Aquarium Includes ASL. Through this program, the Waikiki Aquarium will be the FIRST and ONLY in the nation to offer ASL on-demand tours!

The American Sign Language/English Interpreter Education and the Waikiki Aquarium received SEED-IDEA funding from the University of Hawai’i to spearhead, “Project WĀIʻA: Waikiki Aquarium Includes ASL”, with the goal to translate into ASL selected ocean-related exhibits at the Aquarium. Phase one includes 4 videos. Through the use of smartphone, tablet or laptop, these on-demand videos will provide for deaf and hard of hearing community and guests the same information that the Aquarium’s on-demand audio tours do for guests. The second round of exhibits is currently being translated into ASL by our amazing team of deaf translators and should be available to the public in the fall.

Jan Fried (KCC Professor of American Sign Language/English Interpreter Education) and Pua Auyong (Director of UH SEED-IDEAS Committee)

Our newly opened, student-run full service restaurant, Lēʻahi Concept Kitchen at the Waikiki Parc Hotel launched its website today, leahiattheparc.kapiolani.hawaii.edu

Lēʻahi Concept Kitchen encompasses a unique and memorable experience for not only our student learning but guests as well. As an alumnus of our culinary program and part of our Kapiʻolani CC ʻohana, Lēʻahi Concept Kitchen Executive Chef Edward Mafnas unites a bond between contemporary cuisine, education, and the culinary industry. Read more here, KCC Lēʻahi

Lēʻahi Concept Kitchen is currently open to the public, 5 pm to 9 pm, daily
Located at 2233 Helumoa Rd. (across the Halekulani Hotel)
Reservations are taken by phone at (808) 971-6300
BYOB with a corkage fee of $10 per bottle of wine and $1.00 per bottle of beer
Parking is available in the Halekulani parking garage off Helumoa Rd.
Complimentary valet available for restaurant customers

Aloha KapCC ‘Ohana,

WE DID IT!!! Our campus has contributed 2,011 pounds of food and $1103.48. We have far exceeded our goal and we couldn’t have done it without all of you! Thank you for your generosity and your hard work in supporting our campus’ contribution to help support those in need.

As we mentioned earlier, Chancellor Pagotto would generously donate a Pizza Party to the department that collects the most food items by weight and the most monetary contributions.

We proudly present our winner for the most food by weight at 511 pounds, is Human Resources and Business Office. Our winner for contributing $270.00, is the Admin Staff & Support. We will send your departments a separate email with details about the pizza party. Click here if you would like to see our campus’ results.

Once again, thank you all for participating. Our campus has done an outstanding job this year and it has been a pleasure working with all of you. You have made this an unforgettable experience for us and we hope next year will be just as memorable.

Mahalo,
Mirriam Awong and Jamie Miyashiro
KapCC 2017 Hawai‘i Foodbank Drive Coordinators

Human Resources and Business Office donated a total of 511 lbs of food this year.