{"id":164012,"date":"2022-08-23T16:15:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T02:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=164012"},"modified":"2022-08-31T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T20:25:20","slug":"inaugural-food-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/08\/23\/inaugural-food-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"International culinary leaders headline inaugural food conference"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_164010\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164010\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kapiolani-culinary-tu-davidphu-cutting-fish.jpg\" alt=\"Person cutting fish\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kapiolani-culinary-tu-davidphu-cutting-fish.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kapiolani-culinary-tu-davidphu-cutting-fish-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kapiolani-culinary-tu-davidphu-cutting-fish-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tu David Phu cutting fish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Celebrated chefs, culinary thought leaders and local food producers from <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and around the globe will gather for an inaugural food conference, hosted by <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College and Culinary Institute of the Pacific (<abbr>CIP<\/abbr>). The <em>NEAR AND FAR &#8211; Cool Ideas, Hot Food<\/em> conference on September 21 at the Queen <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Hotel will feature interactive sessions, panel discussions, a lineage-inspired lunch and a farm-to-glass pau hana reception to share how they are helping to drive a new economy and shift towards regenerative models of community and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the guest speakers scheduled to present at the 2022 conference include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helena Norberg-Hodge, (virtual) author, documentary filmmaker and founder of international non-profit Local Futures, a pioneer of the new economy movement<\/li>\n<li>Tu David Phu, chef and filmmaker of Emmy-nominated <em>Bloodline<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Eric Kim, <em>New York Times<\/em> staff writer and the author of <em>Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home<\/em> (Clarkson Potter, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>K\u016bhi\u014d Lewis, <abbr>CEO<\/abbr> of the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement<\/li>\n<li>Rich Shih and Jeremy Umansky, co-authors of <em>Koji Alchemy: Rediscovering the Magic of Mold-Based Fermentation<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Adam Watten, director of food systems for Common Ground Kauai and culinary manager for CG Ventures, whose expertise in vertical supply chain integration is evidenced in his founding of Hanai Market, a local food retail outlet that exclusively sells <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span>-grown and <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span>-made products to the local market<\/li>\n<li>Editor, writer and video host Alyse Whitney, who was formerly the managing editor of Cravings by Chrissy Teigen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_164025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164025\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kapiolani-culinary-eric-kim1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"book cover and person holding wine glass\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-164025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kapiolani-culinary-eric-kim1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kapiolani-culinary-eric-kim1-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kapiolani-culinary-eric-kim1.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Korean American book cover and Eric Kim (Photo credit: Jenny Huang)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tickets for the Near and Far 2022 conference are $225 per person and available for purchase at <a href=\"https:\/\/culinaryinstitute.hawaii.edu\/nearandfar2022\/\">https:\/\/culinaryinstitute.hawaii.edu\/nearandfar2022\/<\/a>. Discounted early bird registration priced at $195 per person ends on August 31. Lunch and Farm-to-Glass Pau Hana reception are included in ticket price. For group ticket purchases contact <strong>Linh Hoang Poe<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/linh.hoang@uhfoundation.org\">linh.hoang@uhfoundation.org<\/a> or call (808) 734-9570.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>CIP<\/abbr> is a state-of-the-art culinary center offering academic and non-credit programs in the culinary arts and food science. The <abbr>CIP<\/abbr> is a statewide network and part of the <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> campus. Uniquely positioned to serve as a magnet for students, researchers and corporations from across the globe seeking the skills, knowledge and expertise in 21st-century food systems, the <abbr>CIP<\/abbr> is located on the slopes of Diamond Head. The <abbr>CIP<\/abbr>\u2019s 7.8-acre campus includes Asian and Western food labs and a culinary innovation center. A 50-seat interactive tasting studio, culture center with dining facilities and a new culinary innovation center will open in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Culinary Institute of the Pacific\u2019s inaugural food conference is September 21.<\/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":[184,951,63,71],"class_list":["post-164012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-culinary","tag-food","tag-kapiolani-community-college","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\/164012","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=164012"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164407,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164012\/revisions\/164407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}