Fellows mentioned in this story:
Mark Noguchi
Amanda Corby Noguchi

From Aloha State Daily:

With 15 participating local chefs and 3,000 ceramic bowls to choose from, guests can expect to fill their stomachs while helping feed Isle communities, through the return of Empty Bowl Hawaiʻi.

The event presented by Hawaiʻi Potters’ Guild is back after a six-year hiatus, slated from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center. Funds raised will benefit the Feed the People Hawaiʻi program, a partnership forged between nonprofits Chef Hui and Aloha Harvest that began out of necessity during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“When the schools were closing because of Covid, the best thing we could do was to bring our partners together into a bowl, so to speak, and quickly figure out our strengths,” Chef Hui co-founder Mark Noguchi told Aloha State Daily. “We put the word out that we were aggregating local ingredients for chefs to create [culturally relevant] meals for communities, and in that first week, we processed half a million pounds of food.”

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