March 2012

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KAISEKI IS JAPANESE

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CUISINE AS HIGH ART, AND IT RELIES TOTALLY ON THE CHEF

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PHOTO: Dan Allen for Farmscape

A bed of cabbage that may be pickled for tsekemono.

for a design museum.” Nakayama, 36, could buy her produce at a Japanese market, she says, but it wouldn’t be as fresh and certainly not as pampered as the herbs and vegetables she grows in her own organic garden. And to attain true kaiseki, quality ingredient sourcing is key. Nakayama, who says she has always known she would be a chef, has studied such subtleties since girlhood, attending Pasadena’s California School of Culinary Arts (later, Le Cordon Bleu College). She then apprenticed with some of the finest Japanese chefs in Los Angeles and spent three more years absorbing kaiseki culture at a renowned Japanese inn owned by relatives. She also toured Japan to study regional flavors and gardens, she says, noting that many Japanese people grow their own organic food. Finally, after rehearsing her skills at small restaurants she ran in Arcadia and West L.A., she was almost ready for the main act of her professional life. She had everything she needed to open her namesake restaurant, she says, except one essential ingredient: her own organic Japanese garden. About a year before she opened her eatery, Nakayama hired Los Angeles–based Farmscape, an urban farming firm that plants and maintains residential gardens to produce healthy, organic, home-grown food. Master gardener Dan Allen, one of Farmscape’s eight co-owners, took Nakayama’s call and paid a visit.

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