{"id":263585,"date":"2025-05-30T06:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/beer\/beer-birthday-masaharu-morimoto\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T06:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:23:11","slug":"beer-birthday-masaharu-morimoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=263585","title":{"rendered":"Beer Birthday: Masaharu Morimoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4202\/34917577355_3a2616379c_o.jpg\" alt=\"morimoto\"\/><br \/>Today is the 68th birthday of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masaharu_Morimoto\">Masaharu Morimoto<\/a>, who \u201cis a Japanese chef, best known as an Iron Chef on the Japanese TV cooking show Iron Chef and its spinoff Iron Chef America.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4220\/34086429894_ab2c18c570_z.jpg\" alt=\"morimoto-knives\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>He\u2019s also collaborated with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogue.com\/\">Rogue Ales<\/a> to create a line of beers known as \u201cThe Signature Series.\u201d They were launched in the Spring of 2003.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-2990.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-2990.png 500w, https:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-2990-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-2990-150x150.png 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Pan Asian restaurant is also celebrating Spring by featuring a Morimoto Sakura beer, $9 that is a cherry blossom Kolsch exclusively brewed at Winter Garden-based Crooked Can Brewery and available for a limited time. The brewers at Crooked Can used imported Sakura (cherry blossoms) to dry hop their award-winning Kolsch to create this specialty brew.<\/p>\n<p>This is his biography from the Food Network:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Iron Chef Japanese Masaharu Morimoto trained in a sushi restaurant before moving to the U.S. in 1985 at the age of 30. After working in several restaurants, he joined the highly acclaimed Nobu restaurant in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Morimoto polished his craft in New York\u2019s melting pot and became a state-of-the-art world chef. His cutting-edge cuisine attracted the attention of Iron Chef producers, who invited him to become a Japanese Iron Chef. His skill, which outshines the trademark diamond stud in his left ear, has been recognized all around the world. While his cooking has Japanese roots, it\u2019s actually \u201cglobal cooking\u201d for the 21st century. His unique fusion cuisine takes advantage of Japanese color combinations and aromas and uses Chinese spices and simple Italian ingredients, while maintaining a refined French style of presentation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCooking is entertainment,\u201d proclaims the revolutionary. Morimoto\u2019s attitude is evident in his dishes, which retain a sense of fun and a bit of spice.<\/p>\n<p>Morimoto opened his own restaurant, Morimoto, in Philadelphia in 2002 and a second one in New York City in 2006.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4227\/34086429784_90f06ba9d9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Iron_Chef_Masaharu_Morimoto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 68th birthday of Masaharu Morimoto, who \u201cis a Japanese chef, best known as an Iron Chef on the Japanese TV cooking show Iron Chef and its spinoff Iron Chef America.\u201d He\u2019s also collaborated with Rogue Ales to create a line of beers known as \u201cThe Signature Series.\u201d They were launched in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[3171,770,94542,94543],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-263585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beer","tag-beer","tag-birthday","tag-masaharu","tag-morimoto"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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