Chefs

I'm learning that to a Japanese chef, the humble act of preparing a bowl of rice the traditional way tells you everything you need to know about this cuisine...

At last month's terrific Japanese food symposium at New York (please see my post), I met one of the guest chefs from Kyoto, a man named Tetsuo Takenaka. He...

Seiji Yamamoto is a classically trained Japanese chef who prepares astonishing Japanese cooking that is nothing like the Japanese cuisine I've encountered. I...

A remarkable event in New York today: A dozen top chefs visiting from Japan presented a forum on "understanding Japanese cuisine." Organized by three major...

A group of 5th graders cutting with scalpel-sharp, six-inch kitchen knives and cooking on gas-fired burners? A scene inconceivable in our litigation-addled...

I wrote this story a year ago with my friend Reiko Sagioka. It's about one of my absolute culinary heroes in Japan, a legendary chef named Hisao Nakahigashi....