Recap: Chef Martina on Wala'au with Dickie Chang

In case you missed it, here's a link to our own Chef Martina's interview on Wala`au with Dickie Chang: http://thegardenisland.com/app/walaau/. Her ten-minute interview is at about 38 minutes into the show.

Thanks to all the culinary faculty for the awesome job you do representing the college and giving our students such great experiences! The Spring Gourmet Gala event on April 12 is going to be fantastic--as usual!

Posted by:
Patricia McGrath

Congratulate the Culinary Competition Students; Plus Demos 10 AM, 12/15

We are happy to announce the results of our Culinary students who competed last Friday in the Student Culinary Expo at Kapiolani CC.

This was an American Culinary Federation (ACF) sanctioned Food Show and Competition judged by three Certified Master Chefs (CMC).

There are only 60-75 CMC's in the United States!! The students (and their coaches, Chef Martina and Chef Nakata) went through an intensive 8 weeks of planning, training and execution after school in order to prepare for this event.

The competitors were:

Will Hudson, Gold Medal, and First Place-Hot Food Category

Kai Lopez, Silver Medal, Judges Choice-Hot Food Category

Joshua Planas,Silver Medal, Third Place-Hot Food Category

Kell Nonaka, Bronze Medal

Ken Morikawa, Certificate of Participation.

If you'd like to see these award-winning students in action, they will be holding a demo at 10 am, this Saturday, December 15th at the KCC Farmers Market.

Posted by:
Chef Martina Hilldorfer,CHE
808-245-8265

Have Breakfast With Us This Sunday (2/19)

Kaua`i Community College

26th Annual ACF Breakfast

Sun, Feb 19, 2012

7 a.m. - 11 a.m.

 KCC Campus

On the Menu

Eggs Benedict

Scrambled Eggs

Portuguese Sausage

Ham

Rice

Hash Brown Potatoes

Omelets to Order

Carved Roast Beef

Pancakes

Pastries  *  Kauai Coffee

Meadow Gold Juice and Milk

Kauai Springs Water

Selection of Fresh Fruits

Get Your Tickets in Advance

Adults - $15  ($18 at the door)

Children 5-10 yrs old - $5 ;  Children under 5 yrs old - free

Ticket Outlets: KCC Cafeteria * Mark's Place (Puhi) * Fish Express (Lihue) * Koloa Fish Market * Kalaheo Coffee House * Kauai Coffee Visitor's Center * Pono Market (Kapaa)

Also on this day... KCC Library 

Used Book Sale 

Technology Building

6:30a.m. - 11:30a.m

Posted by:
Duane Miyasato, Culinary Arts Program
Bob Kajiwara, Library

Culinary Students Bring Home the Gold

Congratulations to our four second-year culinary students who competed in the ACF sanctioned Culinary Student Salon and Culinary Expo last week. 

Mac Alop brought home the Gold medal with a score of 37.5 out of a possible 40 points with his "Orange-Miso Marinated Opaka on Ara Imo, Oriental Mushrooms and Baby Bok Choy, served with a Snapper Fumet".

Karen Ramento entered the 6 individual plated desserts category, and won a bronze medal. 

RJ Udaundo medaled bronze with his "Roulade of Snapper with Caviar Butter and Mushroom Ragout". 

Our third bronze medalist prepared a "Coffee-Rubbed Rack of Lamb with a Phyllo Napoleon and Mediterranean Salad".

The Culinary Student Medalists will be demonstrating some of these dishes and giving out free samples at the KCC Community Farmers Market this Saturday 12/18 starting at 10 am. We will also have 2 delightful coffee drinks for sale to raise funds for the student competitors.

Please join us!

Posted by: 

Martina Hilldorfer for the culinary team

Chancellor's Corner

Welcome Back

Our spring break closure went smoothly, and I hope you all had some well-deserved rest and relaxation!   I have several exciting things to share this week.

Successful Accreditation Visit for our Culinary Program

Please join me in saying congratulations to the Culinary Program for a very successful accreditation visit!  At the exit interview, the ACF accreditation team listed numerous strengths of the program, a few small suggestions and told us that there are NO areas of noncompliance!!!  Some, but not all, of the strengths they noted are:

• the attentiveness of our students
• the support of the community
• the quality of student-instructor interaction
• the professional demeanor of our 2nd year students
• the summer high school culinary institute
• the strong culinary team

So thanks to all of you in the Culinary Program for our hard work and dedication to your students, your profession and KCC.  And Hip, Hip Hurray to you all!!!!!!

PV Panels now generate electricity!

During spring break we were able to flip and switch and begin to generate our own power.  Our OSC panels can generate over 6% of our total power needs when conditions are optimal.  Right now we are trying to set up a display in the One Stop Center and on our website so that everyone can see just how much power we are generating real time. So soon when you come to get your mail, you can also check out our power production!

Follow-up on the Sustainable Living Institute

I want to thank you all for your great brainstorming on March 5 on our Sustainable Living Center.  I have now compiled what you all came up with and will be sending it out to you  today and put it on the website under the Chancellor's Office.  There are some really great ideas in the list!  Those of you who wanted to be on advisory team for this initiative will be meeting with me before the end of semester, so we can make sense of the brainstormed list and suggest some directions for the initiative.  At that point we'll share with the campus where we are and pull in external members to be on the team who can help us move forward in the directions we have targeted.  From having spoken to those in community, I can tell you that there is real excitement about this initiative and even the American Culinary Federation accreditation team noted that their standards are changing in the future to make sure students know about sustainability issues and learn sustainable practice.  We can be at the forefront of making Kauai economically, environmentally and socially sustainable and at the same time train our students for future employment!

New Happenings at the One Stop CenterNext time you come to get your mail at the OSC, you'll notice some improvements.

We now have a greeter at the One Stop Center one hour a week to welcome guests and help them find their way. Please welcome Joshua Iloreta who joins us from the Kapaa High School. Joshua will be greeting people on Wednesdays from 10-11 at least through the end of the DOE school year.

We have a wonderful new painting, "The Gathering Place," on permanent loan from our very own Kyungsoo Lee! It has added lots of color and light to the OSC lobby and created a warm, inviting atmosphere. Please come take a look and thank Kyungsoo when you have a chance.