Best of Japanese Cuisine and Sake

 

Photo by the Embassy of Japan in Canada

 

Award-winning cookbook author, and Capital Style magazine contributor, Margaret Dickenson was a guest of the Honourable Ambassador Kenjior Monji of Japan and his wife, Mrs. Etsuko Monji, at a dinner featuring visiting Chef Naoyuki Yanagihara, “International Food Culture Ambassador” for Japan. The dinner was held at the official residence of the Ambassador of Japan for Ottawa on the 22^nd of October 2015.

Note, the ambassador is one of only 60 Sake Samurai in the world and thus it was a double treat of fine food paired with fine sake. The guest list reflected the very best of Ottawa’s and Gatineau’s culinary world.

In the above photo are: left to right in back row: Wayne Murphy, coordinator and instructor, Culinary Arts, la Cité Collegiale; Louis Charest, executive chef, Official Residence of the Governor General of Canada; John Morris, executive chef, le Café, National Arts Centre; Jonathan Korecki, executive chef, Restaurant 18 and competitor for Top Chef Canada; Stephen Beckta, restaurateur and owner of Beckta, Play and Gezellig; Second row left to right: Peter Hum, food editor, Ottawa Citizen; Ambassador Kenjior Monji; chef Naoyuki Yanagihara; Marc Lepine, chef and owner of Atelier and national winner of Gold Medal Plates Canadian Culinary Championship 2012; Rene Rodriguez, chef and owner of Navara and winner of Top Chef Canada; Front row left to right: Anne Desbrisay, food writer and blogger, Ottawa Magazine, Capital Dining; Mrs. Estuko Monji, wife of the Honourary Ambassador of Japan in Ottawa; Laura Robin, food writer, Ottawa, Citizen; Margaret Dickenson; Veronique Rivest, owner and sommelier, Soif Bar a Vin and second place, World’s Best Sommelier 2013.

 

 

 

Category: FOOD & DRINK, Other