HCEF is sponsoring a summitt for High School Culinary Educators on June 3, featuring Chef Mark Noguchi. Twenty-four educators from Kauai, Oahu, Maui and the Big Island will participate in the virtual program. Watch for details in next month's Taro Leaf.
Mark “Gooch” Noguchi cooks from an ‘āina-based perspective, connecting food to its source to build community. An approach he learned from hula Halau o Kekuhi, it’s defined his innovative restaurant offerings like He`eia Kea Pier, MISSION Social Hall & Cafe, and his current Pili Group, a non-traditional food concept interweaving community, education and food. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Mark is a 2019 Omidyar Fellow and a Food & Sustainability Curriculum Specialist at Punahou School.
