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Kaiseki her way: Niki Nakayama’s journey
Recently the New Yorker profiled Niki Nakayama, calling her Palms restaurant n/naka the most prominent kaiseki restaurant in America.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readRecently the New Yorker profiled Niki Nakayama, calling her Palms restaurant n/naka the most prominent kaiseki restaurant in America. Along with her wife and partner Carole Iida, Niki has carved out her own path in perhaps the most rigorous of all Japanese food traditions, and one that has historically excluded women.
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Niki Nakayama, “memory keepers,” and Mori Onodera’s return- 0:00Kaiseki her way: Niki Nakayama’s journeyYou’re reading this
- 11:31Memories of Japanese-American internment
- 22:55Market Report: Green Garlic
- 30:30Mori Onodera’s return to the sushi bar
- 41:02Garrett Snyder on Sushi I-Naba
- 47:18A women-owned company champions California’s seaweed
The full episode
1 of 6Niki Nakayama, “memory keepers,” and Mori Onodera’s return- 0:00Kaiseki her way: Niki Nakayama’s journeyYou’re reading this
- 11:31Memories of Japanese-American internment
- 22:55Market Report: Green Garlic
- 30:30Mori Onodera’s return to the sushi bar
- 41:02Garrett Snyder on Sushi I-Naba
- 47:18A women-owned company champions California’s seaweed