Six Hawai’i chefs and a bakery were among several hundred chefs, restaurants, bars and bakeries across the country that made the initial cut for the 2024 James Beard Foundation Awards. Today’s announcement included three first-timers from Hawai’i: Bar Maze chef Ki Chung, Jeff Scheer of Marlow on Maui, and Nature Waikīkī’s Nae Ogawa, the sole woman.