{"id":34436,"date":"2015-05-07T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T20:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=34436"},"modified":"2021-09-09T12:12:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T22:12:06","slug":"chef-kusuma-cooray-wins-award-of-excellence-for-ocean-to-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/07\/chef-kusuma-cooray-wins-award-of-excellence-for-ocean-to-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Kusuma Cooray wins award of excellence for Ocean to Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Kusuma Cooray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During the 22nd Annual Ka Palapala Poʻokela<\/span> Awards<\/a>, Chef-Professor Kusuma Cooray<\/strong> of Kapiʻolani<\/span> Community College<\/a> was recognized with the Excellence in Cookbooks Award for her book, Ocean to Plate: Cooking Fish with Hawaiʻi<\/span>’s Kusuma Cooray<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 2015 Ka Palapala Poʻokela<\/span> Awards celebration, held at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span>i at Mānoa, was presented by Hawaiʻi<\/span> Book Publishers Association<\/a> to recognize Hawaiʻi<\/span>’s finest books and their authors, illustrators, designers and publishers over the past year. When translated from Hawaiian, the term “Ka Palapala Poʻokela<\/span>” can mean “excellent or exemplary manuscript.”<\/p>\n

Each year, nominations are judged in 12 categories and only two honors may be given in each category—Award of Excellence and Honorable Mention. Cooray was honored with the Award of Excellence in the cookbook category.<\/p>\n