Cooking For A Community

Mark Oyama

By :: Joan Conrow | Photo by :: Sara Wall Mark Oyama never suffered the angst of trying to figure out what he wanted to be when he grew up. As a fifth grader, he was already spending his summer vacations watching cooking shows and trying to master the art of cracking an egg with one hand—an exercise that had him eating four or five eggs some mornings because, he recalls, “I wanted to perfect it.” Oyama parlayed his love of cooking into two successful businesses— Mark’s Place and Contemporary Flavors Catering—and three concurrent careers as a restaurateur, caterer and co-coordinator of the Kaua‘i Community College Culinary Arts Department, where he’s been teaching novice chefs for seventeen years. Click here to read the complete article

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