Saturday’s Food for Thought event at Waialua High School will offer cooking demonstrations, free food samples and activities for keiki. The event is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the cafeteria, and admission is free.
It is being staged by Les Dames d’Escoffier Hawaii, Waialua High School culinary students and Project Localize to illustrate the meanings of the words “organic,” “local” and “locavore,” and to show how the words are associated with sustainable foods, farming practices and community.
Chefs and members of Les Dames, an organization that promotes excellence in the food, beverage and hospitality industries, will share healthful recipes and snacks. North Shore farmers will offer produce for sale, and a 30-minute presentation by Albie Miles will focus on a West Oahu College degree program in sustainable community food systems.
The school is at 67-160 Farrington Highway. Email waialuaculinary@gmail.com.
Cookbook author shares Chinese pork dishes
Crave contributor Lynette Lo Tom is slated to share her techniques for making Chinese-style pork in two ways: tender char siu and crispy roast pork. The lifelong cook and cookbook author will take over the CookSpace kitchen for her class, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 9.
But in true Lynette fashion, she’ll offer up more than expected: a how-to for fried rice and crispy buns, among her favorite ways to serve the versatile pork dishes, plus her recipe for the side dish see gwa, Chinese silk squash. One more bonus: She brings with her another Chinese cooking expert, her mother, Lorna Lee Lo.
Lo Tom is author of “A Chinese Kitchen,” a compilation of recipes that are the result of extensive research that took Lo to various areas of China.
CookSpace is on the second floor of Ward Warehouse, above T&C Surf Designs. Cost is $68.06. Register at cookspacehawaii.com. Call 695-2205.
Tip a Cop event aids Special Olympics
A nice meal out is always a good thing, but what if you could also build good will with someone and benefit a whole bunch of people too? That’s what will happen Thursday and Friday at Big City Diner, Kincaid’s and Ryan’s Grill at Ward Village, when off-duty law enforcement officers serve meals to diners, all in the name of Special Olympics Hawai‘i.
Under the Tip a Cop program, in its 26th year, customers leave donations for hardworking officers busing tables. The funds will benefit Special Olympics Hawai‘i’s Holiday Classic, an annual competition involving some 1,000 athletes statewide who will compete in basketball, bowling and bocce.
All three restaurants will participate in the program from 5:30 to 9 p.m., while Big City Diner starts early, from 7 to 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Special Olympics, founded in 1968, provides sports activities globally for people with intellectual disabilities. There are more than 4,700 participants in Hawaii. For details on Tip a Cop, call 695-3524.
