Word: shizuoka
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...April, on the fifth anniversary of starting his operation, Shige sat reading a three-page, handwritten letter he had received that day from a Shizuoka man, one of many he gets from those he has helped. The letter concluded by thanking Shige for providing the man with an awareness of the love that surrounded him. As Shige finished reading, the melody of "Amazing Grace" rose from his cell phone. "I want Tojinbo to be the most challenging place," he says. "Not where life ends, but where it begins...
...Nobutora's customers, a 31-year-old nailist from Shizuoka named Yukari, had no sleep the previous night, having caught the first train in to Tokyo at 3 a.m. The average $3,000 she spends on a visit is almost her entire monthly income, most of it spent on good wine for Nobutora, and a reasonable bottle of shochu for the young hosts who keep her company while Nobutora services other tables. Yukari has broken her own rule of coming to the club only once a month - this is already her third visit this month. And meeting Nobutora, she says...
...have any advice for an aspiring French chef? -Sarah Lautengeo, Shizuoka, JapanGo work a month or two as a dishwasher in a really busy restaurant, and see if it's still for you - the adrenaline and futility and craziness and cruelty. If you're over 30 and you think you're going to live your dream as a professional chef, sorry, Pops. It's too late...
...learned how to always be happy, be patient and to be positive, and this is what I want to teach to the next generation.' RIYO MORI, Miss Universe 2007, during the May 28 competition in Mexico City. The 20-year-old dancer from Shizuoka, Japan, beat out 77 other contestants to claim the title...
...London's most ambitious kaiseki restaurant, Kubota goes to extraordinary lengths to bring a Kyoto accent to the land of fish and chips. That means flying in speciality vegetables and Kyoto's soft water for the signature clear soup. He trawls from Iceland to Madagascar for fantastic fish. Grated Shizuoka wasabi - not that fake electric-green paste - accompanies the tsukuri, a sashimi course elaborately composed on handmade ceramics. Fragrant matsutake mushrooms evoke autumn, while Kobe beef melts in the mouth like foie gras. Dishes like sesame tofu are nods to Kyoto's Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. At the end comes...