{"id":56845,"date":"2017-02-24T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T00:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=56845"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:25:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:25:46","slug":"powerful-pioneering-ag-to-culinary-partnership-pleases-palates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/24\/powerful-pioneering-ag-to-culinary-partnership-pleases-palates\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful pioneering ag-to-culinary partnership pleases palates"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qaPJoRJfdZw?showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A beautiful academic partnership is blooming across the <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community College<\/a> campus. The <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/agriculture\">agriculture program<\/a> is providing produce for the campus&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/culinary\">culinary program<\/a> and students on both sides are thrilled.<\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> agriculture student <strong>Ana Murillo<\/strong> said, &ldquo;I feel that that this is very important to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> because 90 percent of our food is imported.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The ag students are growing lettuce, tomatoes and edible flowers among other requested crops for their culinary counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The best part is getting the knowledge to grow our own food and how to grow sustainably or organically,&rdquo; noted <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> agriculture student <strongjoshua Agno<\/strong>.<\/strongjoshua><\/p>\n<p>Once their crops are picked and washed, they are whisked to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s kitchens.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I really really like [the partnership with the ag program] because it helps us get really good quality vegetables,&rdquo; said <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> culinary student <strong>Darrell Egami, Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Culinary students transform produce so fresh it could have been picked that morning into gourmet fare such as an amuse bouche of crostini with ceviche and a tomato soup shooter.<\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> culinary student <strong>Jericho Tobin<\/strong> gestured towards the delicious appetizer he had just assembled. &ldquo;We got the tomato soup that&#8217;s from the agriculture department. They provide a lot of great products. Their greens are awesome. Their heirloom tomatoes are awesome.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Students and the community can enjoy the culinary creations at campus dining establishments. Culinary Instructor <strong>Brian Hirata<\/strong>, who has worked at some of the state&#8217;s best restaurants, says the collaboration helps teach his students the value of locally grown produce and how to form business partnerships with local farmers. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think food security and food sustainability is really important,&rdquo; said Hirata. &ldquo;We feel it&#8217;s really necessary to teach our students, you know the next generation, about that. And the best way for us is [through] this collaboration.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56894\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56894\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hawaii-ag-culinary.jpg\" alt=\"Egami presenting a salad\" width=\"620\" height=\"347\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hawaii-ag-culinary.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hawaii-ag-culinary-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darrell Egami, Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>View the photos on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uhawaii\/sets\/72157680731625435\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Flickr site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collaboration of Hawai&#699;i CC&#8217;s agriculture and culinary students brings locally grown produce from the farm to the plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":56893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[222,184,61,71,56],"class_list":["post-56845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-agriculture","tag-culinary","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hawaii-ag-culinary-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56845"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174170,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56845\/revisions\/174170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}