photograph, color, "1983"
date: label: date made
content: 1983
name: label: maker
content: Kodak Corp.
notes: label: Description
content: This 1983 colored photo is of executive chef Shigefumi Tachibe. Dressed in an all-white chef uniform, with ‘Chaya Tachibe’ threaded onto his chest, he is the executive chef of Chaya Brasserie, a high end fusion restaurant in California. ‘Chaya’, meaning teahouse in Japanese, is a brand of restaurants owned by the Tsunoda family, a family that has owned tea houses and restaurants throughout Japan for nearly 400 years. Shigefumi Tachibe was born in Japan in 1960, and started his culinary career at age 15 at a French dining section of a hotel in Nagasaki. He was the executive chef at La Maree de Chaya in Hayama, Japan, before moving to the US in 1983 to help set up a French and Japanese fusion restaurant, Chaya Brasserie. Chef Tachibe is one of many chefs who participate in popularizing Asian fusion food types, particularly fusion sushi, a type of sushi that incorporates both traditional, like raw fish, and non-traditional sushi elements, like avocado and cream cheese. He invented the tuna tartare, a dish made from small pieces of raw tuna seasoned with oil and spices, in 1984, when he improvised and substituted tuna for raw meat when the clients refused to eat it. When the dish was well received, it became incorporated as a side dish, as the clientele were not yet familiar with raw fish and sushi, and used this as a way to educate the client’s palate about raw fish. Tuna tartare is a staple dish in most fusion restaurants across the country today. The various types of fusion sushi that we see today, like the ‘Dragon Roll’ and the ‘Rainbow Roll’, are products of the Asian fusion food movement, which was pioneered by immigrants like Chef Tachibe who contributed their own culinary customs to the American palate.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: World
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0137.03
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0137.03
label: accession number
content: 2012.0137
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 8 in; 30.48 cm x 20.32 cm