{"id":9181,"date":"2012-08-22T12:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=9181"},"modified":"2021-03-12T08:58:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T18:58:29","slug":"local-first-dining-at-uh-hilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/08\/22\/local-first-dining-at-uh-hilo\/","title":{"rendered":"Local First dining at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LbP2Jdyvg4o?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>When it comes to food, sustainability and the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> System, the cafeteria at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo is leading the way.<\/p>\n<p>60 percent of all the food served there is locally grown and produced and on the first Wednesday of each month, 100 percent is local. The program is called Local First.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It takes a lot of coordination with our farmers, with our vendors as well as with the university,&rdquo; said Bridget Awong, <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo&#8217;s General Manager of the University Dining Services by Sodexo.  &ldquo;Lots of support. Got to have support.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The entrees look and taste like something out of the popular television reality show Top Chef.<\/p>\n<p>Kona coffee Marinated Grilled Rib Eye Steak featuring grass fed beef.<\/p>\n<p>Seared Kona Kampachi on a bed of Maebo noodles with a Meyer lemon soy glaze.<\/p>\n<p>Or how about grilled kalbi tofu pockets, stuffed with soy sesame marinated watercress, garnished with diced cucumber kim chee and takuan?<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s all about giving back to the local community,&rdquo; said Awong. &ldquo;It&#8217;s all about carbon footprint. It&#8217;s all about how can we keep the money here, locally.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The real test is the taste, and <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo aces that exam everyday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh it&#8217;s great,&rdquo; said <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo student Rebecca Hogan. &ldquo;I love the food here.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The fish and chips was really good today,&rdquo; said fellow student Justin Yeh.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&#8217;m very happy about it and you know, you can taste the difference,&rdquo; said student Wesley Ulloa.<\/p>\n<p>The students say they don&#8217;t mind paying a little extra for locally grown food.<br \/>\n&ldquo;I think it is a righteous effort,&rdquo; said Yeh.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think supporting the community that&#8217;s around us in what we live in is a great thing to do,&rdquo; agreed Hogan.<\/p>\n<p>Awong says the students understand what the university is trying to do and often times, there is a connection between farmer and student.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My dad&#8217;s, brother&#8217;s, sister&#8217;s, uncle&#8217;s, that&#8217;s his farm, so it&#8217;s interesting how everything comes back,&rdquo; said Awong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo dining services has a program called &#8220;Local First&#8221; that promotes food sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[184,73,14,56],"class_list":["post-9181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-culinary","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-hilo","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181","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=9181"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137119,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181\/revisions\/137119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}