  {"id":137881,"date":"2021-03-25T11:48:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=137881"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:05:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:05:19","slug":"sugar-showpieces-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/25\/sugar-showpieces-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet success: <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Maui College students\u2019 sugar showpieces shine"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_137913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137913\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/maui-culinary-sugar-showpiece-1.jpg\" alt=\"student with sugar piece\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/maui-culinary-sugar-showpiece-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/maui-culinary-sugar-showpiece-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/maui-culinary-sugar-showpiece-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Maui College culinary student Sage Gomes with sugar creation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sometimes, even under difficult circumstances, you just have to go big and bold. That\u2019s what nine students in the <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Maui College\u2019s<\/a> advanced baking class just did. They made sugar showpieces that would often pose challenges even for seasoned professionals. They worked long, hard hours and, in the end, produced spectacular results.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_137916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137916\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/maui-culinary-sugar-showpiece-feature-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"student with sugar piece\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/maui-culinary-sugar-showpiece-feature-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/maui-culinary-sugar-showpiece-feature-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/maui-culinary-sugar-showpiece-feature.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Maui College culinary student Amber Kalish with her concept and sugar creation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI felt it was important to let them go hog-wild,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/programs\/culn\/\">Culinary Arts Program<\/a> Coordinator <strong>Teresa Shurilla<\/strong>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/19\/shurilla-on-food-network\/\">renowned pastry chef<\/a> who is the class instructor. \u201cThis is the last big, showy project of their time here in our Culinary Arts Program. They needed something to inspire them after this difficult year. They\u2019re going out into a culinary world\u2014an entire world\u2014that has changed dramatically. I wanted them to do something they could be really proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said the students had to draw, design and execute their own visions, and every one of them came through enthusiastically and in grand style.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t always easy. There was some crying\u2026and some breakage! But in the end, we all had a moment together. And I think the results are amazing,\u201d Shurilla said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_137914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137914\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/maui-culinary-sugar-showpiece-2.jpg\" alt=\"student with sugar piece\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/maui-culinary-sugar-showpiece-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/maui-culinary-sugar-showpiece-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/maui-culinary-sugar-showpiece-2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Maui College culinary student Alexis Aglugub works with sugar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing sugar work showcases <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Maui College culinary students\u02bb creativity and skill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[184,377,71,60],"class_list":["post-137881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-culinary","tag-culinary-arts-program","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137881","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=137881"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174111,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137881\/revisions\/174111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}