The Hawaii Culinary Education Foundation is sponsoring a visit from California chef/Dame Tanya Holland. LDEI Hawaii is supporting this HCEF education program.

LDEI Hawaii members have an exclusive early opportunity to register for an intimate talk-story dinner event with Chef Holland at Fête restaurant in Chinatown. (Limited to 18 attendees.) Register by March 1 for early access; registration opens to the general public on April 1.

Event Details:

Monday, April 17, 5:30 p.m.
Fête (2 N. Hotel St., Honolulu), private library room (2nd floor)

Cost: $130 inclusive (dinner and wine, or zero-alcohol option)

Menu:

Snacks / Starters (family style)
Quinoa cakes with Romesco & crushed avocado
Trio of Fete spreads with grilled sourdough

Salad Course (family style)
Basil Caesar Salad

Main Course (family style)
• Korean Bavette Steak with ginger scallion fried rice, Asian pear slaw
• JP’s Risotto with local mushroom, blistered green garlic & peas, onsen egg
• Market Fish (chef’s choice)

Dessert
Citrus olive oil cake & scoop seasonal sorbet

About Chef Tanya Holland:

Acclaimed for her inventive take on modern soul food, as well as comfort classics, Tanya Holland was the executive chef/owner of the internationally renowned and beloved Brown Sugar Kitchen restaurant, in Oakland, California. The author of California Soul, The Brown Sugar Kitchen Cookbook and New Soul Cooking, Holland competed on the 15th season of Top Chef on Bravo and was the host and soul food expert on Food Network’s Melting Pot; she appears on the new HBO Max show Selena + Chef featuring Selena Gomez, and is the host of “Tanya’s Kitchen Table” on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.