Supporting locally grown food & cultural diversity
Another great Taste Education event. Big mahalo to Melissa McKelvey of Penguini, Chris Speere with the Maui Culinary Academy, Whole Foods Market Kahului and all the Slow Foodies who made it happen.
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Continuing with its Taste Education Series, Slow Food Maui presents its third session: Making sorbets and gelatos with Melissa McKelvey of Penguini in Pāʻia. McKelvey’s products are crafted from locally grown ingredients in distinctive combinations such as Kafir-lime-coconut, lilikoi-mango and Olinda plum and ginger.
Date: Wednesday, April 27
Time: 6:00-7:00 p.m. HST
Place: Maui Culinary Academy, UH Maui College, Pa’ina Building, 310 W. Kaahumanu Ave., Kahului, Maui, Hawai‘i
Cost: $15
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Walk-ins are welcome, however, reservations are highly recommended due to limited seating per session.
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Good times at Penguini in Pa‘ia last night, when we gathered to surprise Dania for her 50th birthday, which is actually on Thanksgiving. Great job, Charlene for engineering this, and thanks Melissa for hosting us! She really was surprised!
Flatbread - Paia
Penguini - Paia
Slow Food Maui and it’s prospective members got the “royal treatment” last evening as Flatbread in Paia hosted our group around the large community table which brought together a pool of wonderfully talented individuals that will help populate our various committees. The group dined on salads, a variety of brick oven pizzas , courtesy of Jenna of Flatbread, and decadent desserts of gelato and cupcakes, courtesy of Melissa of Penguini in Paia.
A point echoed throughout the meeting was that the committees will be the driving force behind the organization and will lead our group out into the Maui community.
Our committees are:
Education Committee: Charlene Kauhane
Chef/Restaurant Committee: Shannon Wianecki
Endorsements Committee: Tova Callender
Farm/Ag Committee: Becky Speere
Volunteer Committee: Dania Katz
Our committees are forming fast to help with the various upcoming projects & events such as:
Volunteers needed to help South Maui Sustainability with the School Gardens at Kihei Elementary – Saturday, Oct. 16th 8-11AM
Taste Education – Sat. Oct. 23rd, 9AM-2PM at the Ali`i Kula Lavender Gardens
Endorsement of The Noble Chef Event - Friday,Oct. 29th, 6 – 9:30 PM at the Fairmont Kea Lani in Wailea
Cookbook Exchange & Bake Sale – Dec. 4th , 9AM – 2PM at the Maui Botanical Gardens
Anyone interested in helping support the work of any of those committees is encouraged to sign up!
Many thanks to the Management & Staff at Flatbread for feeding us and to Melissa at Penguini for her Sweetness!