Supervised by the chef of Hotel CETRE Kobe Maiko Menu using local ingredients served at Aitoku Gakuen's school lunches

HORONIC Corporation (Head office: Higashinada-ku, Kobe; Representative Director: Ichiro Osada), which operates community-based hotels mainly in the Kansai region, will begin serving school lunches at the Aitoku Gakuen School Corporation (Tarumi Ward, Kobe City) from October 30, 2024 (Wednesday), using local ingredients and a menu designed and supervised by the hotel chef. Tarumi Ward, Kobe City) will continue to provide school lunches using local ingredients.

The first school lunch menu was "Grilled Awaji Chicken with Autumn Vegetable Sweet Potato Soup". This time, we will use autumn vegetables (sweet potatoes) from C-farm in Kobe City's Nishi-ku. Mr. C-farm, the producer of the vegetables, will be present at the event to talk to the children in an easy-to-understand manner about the delicious taste of vegetables, how organic vegetables are prepared, and the benefits of using out-of-spec vegetables to reduce food loss.

We hope that this event will be an opportunity for children to gain interest in and knowledge about foodstuffs by interacting with the producers. Through this initiative, we would like to make the children more aware of the wonderful local producers, and by incorporating local foods into school lunches, we would like to use them as "living teaching materials" for food-related instruction, deepen their understanding of local nature, culture, and industry, and nurture their appreciation for the efforts of the producers and food. We would like to nurture a sense of appreciation for the efforts of producers and food. Through nutrition education, we would like to convey to the next generation how to think about the SDGs, improve the environment, revitalize local communities, and reduce food loss.

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Date : October 30, 2024 (Wed.) School lunch time 12:15~.

PLACE : Aitoku Gakuen School Corporation (3-6-49 Utashikiyama, Tarumi-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture)

SCHEDULE：11:30-12:15 Talk from the producer about the attractiveness of the ingredients

Background of the event

The SETRE Group is disseminating initiatives that take advantage of local "people, goods, and resources" with community at the core. There is a lot of history, culture, and inherited skills in the region that even the locals do not know about, and as a community hotel, CETRAY aims to discover and disseminate them, and through our hotels, we hope to address local issues and revitalize the local economy.

We hope that the school lunch program will provide an opportunity for children, who will be responsible for the next generation, to learn about the appeal of local ingredients and to think about environmental issues, food loss, and regional revitalization. We proposed the idea to Aitoku Gakuen at the timing of the start of the school lunch program, hoping to offer a menu designed and supervised by a hotel chef to increase interest in food and to deepen knowledge of food ingredients through contact with producers.

About C-farm

C-farm is an organic farmer that is developing its business based on the theme of "food, body, and home". We are working for the development of organic agriculture and the resolution of agricultural issues by allowing many people to experience the "goodness" of agriculture through their five senses. In addition to farmers, we also run a café and use a bus route to deliver fresh vegetables picked in the fields to the center of Kobe City.

C-farm

Hotel CETRE Kobe Maiko Chef Yasuyuki Takami

We want to connect people with their thoughts through happy meals. We want our guests to feel the "producer's thoughts" in carefully nurturing the ingredients and the "energetic ingredients" delivered from there. Our goal is to create a restaurant that is not bound by genre or cooking techniques, but rather to nurture a story through food together with our customers and producers. This time, we would like to convey the appeal of local ingredients to children through school lunches.

Chef Takami

■Menus to be served at school lunches

Grilled Awaji Chicken with Autumn Vegetables in Sweet Potato Soup

Menu

This time, sweet potatoes will be the main attraction. The autumn vegetables are rich in nutrients, and we hope you will enjoy the flavor of the chicken and the texture of the root vegetables in this rich soup.

About Hotel CETRE Kobe Maiko

Hotel CETRE Kobe Maiko (24 guest rooms and restaurant), located at the foot of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, opened in April 2005 as the first hotel in the Kansai region after renovating the Hotel Perla. Located only a short distance from Osaka, with ocean views of the Seto Inland Sea and the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, guests can enjoy the changing time of the Seto Inland Sea and the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge from every window in the hotel as well as in all 24 rooms.

The renovation and architectural design was created by Ryuichi Ashizawa, a Good Design Award winner and professor at the University of Shiga Prefecture. The chapel of the CETRAY, which appears to float on the sea, received the Good Design Award in 2006, and has received many awards both in Japan and abroad.

The hotel's restaurant offers dishes made from carefully selected ingredients that the chef himself has sought out by visiting farmers and fishermen, and the food has been well received.

Hotel Cetre Kobe Maiko

11-1 Kaigan-dori, Tarumi-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 655-0000

TEL : 078-708-3331

Business hours: Closed on Tuesdays (except national holidays, summer and year-end/New Year holidays)

About Settlement Group

SETRE is a community hotel for local residents and local communities operated by HORONIC Co.

We aim to be a "community hotel" that brings together people and people, and people and communities, by transforming treasures that have been lost in the culture of the times, and stories that lie dormant in the community, into new "value" for our guests, based on the concept of "connection and connection. In 2008, we renovated a national pension dormitory and opened our second hotel, CETRAY Highland Villa Himeji, in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture. In December 2018, it opened Settre Naramachi in Nara City, Nara Prefecture, and currently manages and operates five hotel facilities.