Thank you for joining the Fifth Essentials of Japanese Cooking Course. It was great to cook with all of you – both professional chefs and seasoned home cooks – from all over the world. Please keep practicing the dishes that you have learned during the Course. When you have mastered them, move onto new dishes, which you can find in The Japanese Kitchen, The Sushi Experience and Hiroko’s America Kitchen. Enjoy Japanese meals at home and stay healthy. Let...
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Best gift of the season. Hiroko will repeat her popular Essentials of Japanese Cuisine Course at International Culinary Center (Former French Culinary Institute) in New York City next March. The course starts from March 17th, Monday througth March 21, Friday. It is a Five (5) Day Intensive Course. In the past I had varieties of students. Seasoned home cooks, beginner of Japanese cuisine, restaurant chefs, catering chefs, private chefs,….Instructions are given in a way...
Read MoreDay 5 Last Day of Essentials of Japanese Cuisine with Chef Masato Shimizu of 15East
Chef Masato may be one of the most celebrated sushi chef in New York City. He is charming (very handsome), very low-key, generous and a very fun person (you cannot guess from his serious face during his work at 15 E!).We were so blessed to have Masato with us. Each student received one whole fluke to tackle with it. A BIG CHALLENGE. Chef Masato first showed the students how to remove scales and how to fillet the fish into 2 back-side fillets and 2 belly-side fillets. Every...
Read MoreHiroko’s Intensive Essentials of Japanese Cuisine in July, 2012
Plan your holiday in New York City this July (19-23) surrouding Hiroko’s Intensive Essentials of Japanese Cuisine course at International Culinary Center. After information packed, fun and delicious class (class starts from 9am and ends 2pm), you can roam about the exciting city and eat at several of the finest restaurants in the world. Two prominent Japanese chefs join Hiroko in teaching. The most celebrated sushi chef, Masato Shimizu of 15East and pupular Izakaya...
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Big Thank You for Bogota Wine & Food Festival and Fundacion Prema for inviting us – Chef Daisuke Hayashi (Sake no Hana, London), Chef Masato Shimizu (15 East, NYC), Chef Shuichi Kotani (Soba Totto, NYC), Sake Sommelier Yasu Suzuki (15 East, NYC), Chef Tsuyoshi Murakami (Kinoshita, Brazil) and Chef Hiroko Shimbo (Hiroko’s Kitchen, LLC, NYC) – to offer a charity Japanese dinner at JW Marriott Hotel in Bogota. The raised money at the dinner was donated...
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