This spring, HCC-Pālamanui and La`i`ōpua 2020 are offering a free culinary programs for adults.

The non-credit program, which will give students a combination of theory and hands-on experience, will be comprised of a basic culinary skills as well as baking principles and techniques.

The class sessions will include working in a commercial kitchen, learning about safe food handling and sanitation, creating menus using local, healthy foods, use and care of kitchen equipment, and knife skills. Each student will also complete a food safety handling course.

The spring cohort begins April 18 and runs through May 11, 2023.

Funded by a Hawaiʻi County grant, the program will be led by Pālamanui Chefs Fernand Guiot, Catherine Harlan and Paul Heerlein,  Associate Professor/Coordinator Culinary Arts. Classes will be held in the evenings in the college’s culinary arts classroom/kitchen and in La`i`ōpua 2020’s commercial kitchen.

To apply visit https://www.laiopua.org/culinary-program.