{"id":157182,"date":"2022-04-01T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T21:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=157182"},"modified":"2022-04-01T11:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T21:32:04","slug":"leeward-cc-students-dish-at-7-eleven-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/01\/leeward-cc-students-dish-at-7-eleven-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student\u2019s vegan dish for sale at 7-Eleven Hawai\u02bbi stores"},"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-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_12309\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c08lNwW-XOQ?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Â鶹´«Ã½culinary students elevate healthy entrees for 7-Eleven\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Vegan Rigatoni Bolognese, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/\">Leeward Community College<\/a> culinary student <strong>Kaleb Molina<\/strong>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/12\/06\/healthy-entrees-for-7-eleven\/\">winning creation<\/a>, is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/7elevenhawaii.com\/\">7-Eleven <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> stores for a limited time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152737\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/uhcc-culinary-7-eleven-molina-rigatoni-feature-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"pasta\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-152737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/uhcc-culinary-7-eleven-molina-rigatoni-feature-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/uhcc-culinary-7-eleven-molina-rigatoni-feature-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/uhcc-culinary-7-eleven-molina-rigatoni-feature.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaleb Molina\u2019s Vegan Rigatoni Bolognese.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In December, 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a> culinary arts students competed in 7-Eleven <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s annual contest to produce a better-for-you bento or entr\u00e9e that could potentially be sold at all 7-Eleven <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> locations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[Vegan Rigatoni Bolognese had] a really good flavor profile and we think customers who don\u2019t eat vegan would eat this,&rdquo; 7-Eleven Senior Category Manager Debbie Lee Soon said, after announcing the winner. Molina\u2019s dish went on sale at 7-Eleven\u2019s statewide on March 29. The three-week sales window could be lengthened if it does well.<\/p>\n<p>Molina, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/dining.staradvertiser.com\/2022\/03\/columns\/restaurant-insider-with-anne-lee\/7-eleven-hawaii-6\/\">recently featured<\/a> in the <em>Honolulu Star-Advertiser<\/em>\u2019s &ldquo;Dining Out&rdquo; section, told the interviewer, &ldquo;This is a tremendous opportunity for me to get my name out there in this industry. 7-Eleven <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> is a household name statewide and I have family all over <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and am so proud to have my relatives and friends hear about this. I am the first in my family to go to college.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/leeward-culinary-rigatoni-sign.png\" alt=\"7-eleven Hawaii advertisment for Vegan Rigatoni Bolognese\" width=\"676\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-157203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/leeward-culinary-rigatoni-sign.png 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/leeward-culinary-rigatoni-sign-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/leeward-culinary-rigatoni-sign-130x47.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Past winners<\/h2>\n<p>This was the fourth time <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Community College culinary arts students competed for the opportunity to have their dishes sold at 7-Eleven <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> locations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2020: <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> students <strong>Eri Abe<\/strong> (Wafu &#699;Ulu Stew) and <strong>Jeongyeon Shim<\/strong> (Tteobokki, spicy rice cake stir-fry) were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/12\/08\/7-eleven-culinary-competition\/\">co-first-place winners<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2019: Shrimp and Vegetable Sinigang Noodle Soup by <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>\u2019s <strong>Kainoa Reloza<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/12\/04\/culinary-students-put-it-all-on-the-line\/\">took the prize<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>2018: <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student <strong>Primo Mateo<\/strong>\u2019s Chicken Pastele Stew and Gandule Rice bento was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/30\/bring-on-the-healthy-bento\/\">inaugural champion<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;By <strong>Kelli Abe Trifonovitch<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get first-place Vegan Rigatoni Bolognese at 7-Eleven while you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[184,63,65,660,71],"class_list":["post-157182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-culinary","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-community-colleges","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157182","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=157182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157210,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157182\/revisions\/157210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}