{"id":186500,"date":"2023-11-03T13:27:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T23:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=186500"},"modified":"2023-11-03T13:27:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T23:27:21","slug":"paina-markert-welcoming-community-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/03\/paina-markert-welcoming-community-back\/","title":{"rendered":"From fire relief food hub to community gathering place"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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After months of serving as a food hub for Maui wildfire relief efforts<\/a>, the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Maui College\u2019s Pāʻina<\/span> Market is welcoming the community back to gather and have lunch.<\/p>\n

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“Our incredible culinary arts program faculty, staff, students and alumni together with hundreds of volunteers prepared, cooked, packed up and delivered an extraordinary 200,000 home-cooked, comforting meals for our fire-displaced neighbors,” said Chancellor Lui Hokoana. “As we all move forward on our island\u2019s journey to recovery, it\u2019s truly a blessing to get our students back into their regular curriculum, which includes cooking delicious lunches for folks both on campus and off.”<\/p>\n

World Plate and Paniolo Grill in the Pāʻina<\/span> Market are now open for lunch. Both eateries are guided by highly experienced chef instructors and run by students in the college\u2019s award-winning culinary arts program. They utilize as much local product as they are able to obtain, some of it grown right on campus.<\/p>\n

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“For me, personally, as cathartic and rewarding as it was to be able to contribute to our community in need in the wake of the wildfire disaster, I think it has been good for everyone to begin classes again,” said World Plate Chef Instructor Gary Johnson. “Most of the students I have in class were part of our relief effort so, in a way, I have some of the most experienced students I have ever had for what would typically be a first-year course. And we\u2019re all happy to have people buzzing around our Pāʻina<\/span> building again.”<\/p>\n

Currently, his class is working through some European-inspired menus. The students have also begun working on their student planned menu, which will be Korean-inspired and served the first week of December.<\/p>\n

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Paniolo Grill Chef Instructor Noel Cleary is also happy to be teaching again. He guides his students through ever-changing menus of food he describes as “meant to be delivered fast but definitely not fast food.”<\/p>\n

The focus at Paniolo Grill is on made-to-order gourmet deli sandwiches—hot and cold, classic and creative, served with crispy fries—a salad of the week and a plate lunch of the week.<\/p>\n

Paniolo Grill and World Plate are open Monday\u2013Thursday, 11 a.m<\/abbr>.\u20131 p.m<\/abbr>. Most lunches are priced below $15. Also being served: hot and cold grab-and-go items, special of the day, salad bar and assorted pastries prepared by UH<\/abbr> Maui College baking students. Cash and credit cards are accepted. Menus and times are subject to change. Pāʻina<\/span> Market is closed on UH<\/abbr> holidays.<\/p>\n

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