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How Chef Ming Tsai Engineered a Career in Cooking PAGE 4 Jaden Hairʼs steamy kitchen. THE WAY HAWAII COOKS Chef Alan Wong brings farm fresh food to restaurants, kitchens. PAGE 3 PAGE 4 Simple cooking, simply Ming Tsai. PHOTO: MARY ANN CHANGG # 3168 VOL. 152, NO. 10 ISSN: 0030-8579 WWW.PACIFICCITIZEN.ORG June 3-16, 2011 2 june 3-16, 2011 SPECIAL FOOD ISSUE PACIFIC CITIZEN HOW TO REACH US Special Food Issue: JACL’s Top Chefs E-mail: [email protected] Some of the fondest memories I have Online: www.pacificcitizen.org Tel: (213) 620-1767 with my family have to do with food. Fax: (213) 620-1768 Waking up early Christmas morning so I Mail: 250 E. First Street, Suite 301 could help my mom prepare the turkey, Los Angeles, CA 90012 veggies and dessert. Oshogatsu was a STAFF big deal at our house too with my mom Executive Editor Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom spending days preparing the traditional feast. Now with my almost two year old Assistant Editor son I’m looking forward to passing on Lynda Lin these same family traditions. Reporter For many in the JACL family and the larger Asian American Nalea J. Ko community, food plays an integral role. Isn’t there always that one Business Manager person who brings the best sushi to chapter meetings or bakes the Staci Hisayasu best pies? Circulation In this issue we bring you just a sample of JACL’s Top Chefs, Eva Lau-Ting some are professional cooks but most are amateurs who have Mile Hi JACL’s been blessed with culinary skills. Read about their favorites dishes The Pacific Citizen newspaper Gladys Konishi (ISSN: 0030-8579) is published and what makes them a “Top Chef”. They’ve also been kind enough (top) loves cooking semi-monthly (except once in De- to share their special recipes so this issue is definitely a keeper. cember and January) by the Japa- Japanese, Chinese, Share it with your family and friends. nese American Citizens League, Italian and Mexican Pacific Citizen, The P.C. staff also interviewed some of the pros making a name dishes while Wash- 250 E. 1st Street, Suite 301, Los for themselves in the food industry. Read about restauranteur Alan Angeles, CA 90012 ington D.C. JACL’s Wong, TV celebrity Ming Tsai and food blogger Jaden Hair. Periodical postage paid at L.A., CA David Inoue (left) POSTMASTER: send address makes killer sushi. changes to National JACL, 1765 Caroline Aoyagi-Stom Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94115 Executive Editor JACL President: David Kawamoto National Director: Floyd Mori SPRING CAMPAIGN PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE P.C. 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During No part of this publication may be the selfless contributions of our nation’s reproduced without the express per- the event, I was reminded of the impact the true heroes. I think proudly of my father’s mission of the Pacific Citizen. Pacific Citizen has had over the decades, service in the 100/442 Regimental Editorials, news and the opinions ex- and the role it has played as a lifeline of pressed by columnists other than the Combat Team during World War II. This group of volunteers served with national JACL president or national di- news and information not just to JACL uncommon valor and became the most highly decorated unit in military rector do not necessarily reflect JACL members but to anyone interested in news about Asian Americans and history. And the Nikkei who served in the Military Intelligence Service policy. Events and products advertised Pacific Islanders. in the Pacific Citizen do not carry the had the unquestionably dangerous task of serving in the Pacific campaign implicit endorsement of the JACL or The first reflection of the P.C.’s impact were the panelists: Gwen when they had the same appearances as the enemy combatants. this publication. We reserve the right to Muranaka, English editor of the Rafu Shimpo in L.A., Kenji Taguma, In addition to the well-documented achievements of the Nisei veterans edit articles. © 2011 editor of the Nichi Bei Weekly in San Francisco, Shigeharu Higashi who of WWII, our community is also very proud of the military service by Periodicals paid at Los Angeles, runs the Cultural News website and monthly newspaper in L.A., and Japanese Americans in conflicts before and after WWII. Their devotion to Calif and mailing office. George Johnston, a Rafu columnist who has launched a news website our country and its principles reflect well on them. And, gratefully, reflect called Nikkei Nation. Of these four, Muranaka and Johnston both worked well on our community. JACL MEMBERS for the P.C. Harry Honda, the walking encyclopedia of Japanese America, Memorial Day is an opportunity for all of us to further consider the JACL and the P.C ., was in the audience. Many of the audience members Change of noble contributions of our military veterans. I feel the third verse of Address have been reading the P.C. all their lives. “America the Beautiful” most accurately reflects on that service and our SEE ASAKAWA/PAGE 7 appreciation. If you’ve moved, “O beautiful for heroes proved please send new In liberating strife. information to: SPRING CAMPAIGN Who more than self their country loved National JACL Help support the Pacific Citizen by donating today! And mercy more than life! 1765 Sutter St. America! America! San Francisco, CA NAME 94115 May God thy gold refine Allow 6 weeks for ADDRESS Till all success be nobleness address changes. 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But if Wong had it his Pacific Northwest Best Chef Award. up his chef coat and eating a vegan breakfast way, that would change. The commander in chief has also given Wong’s East-West everyday prepared by his other half, Alice. “I have a personal mission for the company, which is to cuisine the stamp of approval. In 2009 Alan Wong was called help effect a 10 percent increase in local food production and in from Hawaii to the White House kitchen, where he crafted consumption,” Wong explained. “Here in Hawaii we import the luau menu for the Congressional picnic. By Nalea J. Ko over 85 percent of our food supply. We purchase over $3.6 “It was great. It was the president’s first year in office,” Reporter billion of food coming into Hawaii.” Wong said breaking into a laugh. “I was nervous. But it was To effect a 10 percent change, Wong says supporting local also fun.” Award-winning chef Alan Wong has held nearly every farmers, ranchers and fishermen is essential. It’s a mission In the White House kitchen, Wong worked alongside the position in the restaurant business since his stint as a Wong has been working on for decades. president’s chef Cristeta Comerford, a Filipino American. dishwasher at Hawaii’s Don the Beachcomber restaurant. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Wong grew up on the island of Oahu Wong would not divulge any secrets about the first family’s The 54-year-old, who hated vegetables as a child and hid in Hawaii. He did not always have a passion to be a chef. But food requests, other than to say they are “very health them in his pockets, learned to appreciate different dishes the culinarian says he developed his palate at home, eating conscious.” while working at the Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel. From his homemade meals prepared by his Japanese mother. Wong, however, dished about his cooking styles in his new first position as a dishwasher, Wong eventually worked his “I grew up eating good-tasting food.
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