#Niki Nakayama

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Watching people cook kaiseki with Niki Nakayama 😭

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Niki Nakayama

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The chef Niki Nakayama, @nikinakayama, and her wife and collaborator, Carole Iida, @carolerikaiida, are two of a small number of female chefs in a high-end Japanese culinary landscape that is virtually dominated by men. Nakayama’s restaurant has become a highly coveted reservation in L.A, with tables booked out three months in advance. Source: Lesbian Herstory / The New Yorker.

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Niki Nakayama

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: Born 1975

Ethnicity: Japanese

Nationality: American

Occupation: Chef, entrepreneur

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I always believed, growing up, that I’m supposed to pay my dues. And I thought, “Okay, I’m going to have to work really hard to make something happen, to learn something. In order to get anywhere in life, I have to work hard at it. But someday, when all is said and done, and I feel ready enough, I’m going to do my own thing. And just be free.

Niki Nakayama

[chuanming-ong]

There’s a few things I want to say today. First, I decided to redraw a portrait I did of chef Niki Nakayama three years ago! I included both in this post, and I think it’s pretty darn obvious which one is the old piece (haha). It’s crazy to see how my sense of design and just all around aesthetics have changed over the years, so I’m excited to see where the future will lead me in terms of my artistic development. 

ALSO I just noticed that around 31,000 people are following this blog. Thank you all, whether you’ve been around since my first post or just joined! 

Next, I wanted to let you guys know that I updated my site: www.chuanmingart.com I’m available again for freelance (editorial) work, both full-time and part-time! So please feel free to spread the word.

You can also follow me on Twitter and Instagram, both of which I update more regularly than Tumblr, so if you want to see more stuff on a regular basis, that’s where you can find me!

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Chef Niki Nakayama on flow: "Getting to that feeling is only after the 100th hour! The focus is just on the work and my mind is completely clear. It’s music in my head."

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Niki Nakayama's blends cultures in her chef story

Niki Nakayama's blends cultures in her chef story @mackidsbooks @DebbiMichiko @Jamie_Michalak @StudioYukoJones

Niki Nakayama: A Chef’s Tale in 13 Bites, by Jamie Michalak & Debbi Michiko Florence/Illustrated by Yuko Jones, (Sept. 2021, Farrar, Straus & Giroux), $18.99, ISBN: 9780374313876 Ages 4-8 Niki Nakayama, the master chef behind the California restaurant n/Naka, shares her story in this lovely picture book biography from children’s book authors Jamie Michalak, Debbi Michiko Florence, and illustrator…

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Niki Nakayama “Blue Crab”

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In Japanese there’s this word called Kuyashii, which is when somebody puts you down or says you can’t do something and you have this burning desire to prove them wrong. Earlier in my career I felt a lot of motivation from that.

Niki Nakayama

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Like Nakayama, Iida-Nakayama also grew up in the food business: Her family owned a sushi restaurant. But both hesitate to call themselves “experts” of Japanese food and take issue with chefs who claim expertise in a cuisine when they have only had minimal exposure to its cultural origins. “It’s incredibly offensive," Nakayama said. "Because although we have our Japanese background, we would never come in and say we’re experts on Japanese food because [as Americans], it’s a very different level of understanding. We like to say that this is our interpretation of what we understand of what Japanese food is.” “[Claiming expertise] is something we can’t authentically stand by,” Iida-Nakayama added. “We understand there are going to be guests from Japan that come who don’t think this is Japanese enough.”

On Niki Nakayama’s Menu, California Ingredients Meet Japanese Heart

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Culinary Wonder Woman Niki Nakayama is the only female kaiseki chef in the world. She also rocks because she elevated this edible art form to a whole new level at her extraordinary restaurant n/naka.

See her delicious story in this BN Daily Fix: http://bit.ly/2rYKKWW

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this isn’t the actual clip but  i turned on one of those netflix food documentaries ( Chef’s Table Season 1 episode 4 ) for background noise when i was drawing once and !!!!!!

restaurant owner and head chef Niki Nakayama and her wife/sous chef (and their cat) saved my entire life

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Chef’s Table

Featuring: Niki Nakayama

“We’re not doing our best to appreciate what nature is truly offering; what the lessons of life that are all around us are trying to teach us.”

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Chef’s Table -- Niki Nakayama