Salvatore Cuomo Explained

Salvatore Cuomo
Birth Date:1972 7, df=yes
Birth Place:Naples, Italy
Other Names:Salvatore Shigeta
Children:10
Years Active:1984–present
Education:Culinary School
Nationality:Japanese
Television:Japanese and international television
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Salvatore Cuomo Career
Style:Italian cuisine (pizzaiolo), fresh and organic
Ratings:Yahoo Travel
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Australia
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France
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Japan
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Time Out
Restaurant Iku
Restaurants:Over 100 Restaurants
Casa Cuomo Cafe Oyama Open 2024Casa Cuomo Jakarta Open 2023Gelateria LAB3680 Hita Open 2022Salvatore Cuomo Cafe Manila Open 202077 Pizza Salvatore Cuomo (chain)[1]
Salvatore Cuomo Restaurant (chain)
Salvatore Cuomo & Bar (chain)
Salvatore Cuomo Grill (chain)
Mohri Salvatore
Presto Salvatore Cuomo (chain)
6 The Kitchen Salvatore Cuomo (Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Seoul, Shanghai)
5 XEX[2]
AG (teppanyaki restaurant)

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Salvatore Shigeta (; born 14 July 1972) is an Italian-born Japanese celebrity chef, restaurateur and media personality, known for his food-focused television shows and cookbooks, and his restaurants across Asia.

He is known in Japan as "The Pizza Man" and "The Grand Chef". He owns and operates Ystable Corporation, owned together with Seizaburo Kanayama.

Early life

Salvatore Cuomo was born in Naples, Italy, in 1972, the son of an Italian father and Japanese mother.

Cuomo was first inspired by his father who also was an Italian Chef in Naples. He began at the young age of 11, where he trained himself in the kitchen and traveled frequently between Italy and Japan. He gradually learned how to blend the traditional Italian art of cooking with the Japanese art of perfection.

A few years later he travelled to Japan with his father who opened an Italian restaurant in Chiba in 1984. About those early years Salvatore told the press that it wasn't a good starting experience: "I didn’t like Japan at all, so after one year, I went back to Italy and spent 2–3 years studying at a culinary school. When I was 18, I returned to Japan after my father became terminally ill and I have been here ever since."[3] Cuomo said that Italian Cuisine was just starting to get popular in those days. He and his two brothers decided that in order to succeed in the restaurant business in Japan they would have to understand the Japanese food mentality. They spent a couple of years researching the market before opening a new restaurant in Tokyo with what Cuomo calls "Original Neapolitan pizza."

Since that time, Cuomo has been credited with catapulting Neapolitan pizza to fame in Japan, and today in all Asia.

Career

His first job was as a pizzaiolo in Naples, where he first gained experience with preparing pizzas and Italian dishes, and developed a relationship with his mentor, his father.

Cuomo has been credited with catapulting Neapolitan pizza to fame in Japan, and today he operates and supervises more than 77 Pizza Salvatore restaurants, and five The Kitchen Salvatore Cuomo restaurants (in Kyoto, Nagoya and Shanghai, Seoul Korea), as well as Salvatore Cuomo Bros (under the umbrella of XEX), BOTTEGA casual dining, Café al Grazie, and Italiaichiba Bar establishments.[4] [5] [6]

Cuomo has made numerous guest appearances on TV programs such as Iron Chef and Buona Sera, an Italian cooking program on WOWOW.

He has written three books: Welcome to Neapolitan Dining Table (1995), Happy Pasta (1997), Sun’s Dining Table (1999), One Life (2010), #PIZZAUNESCO 2016 (2016), #PIZZAUNESCO 2017 (2017)

In 2010, the Yucasee Newspaper reported Salvatore Cuomo collaborating with 辻口博啓氏 Tsujikuchi Hiroshi Akira, Japanese chef patissier-chocolatier.[7] In March 2014, ANA (All Nippon Airways) joins Salvatore Cuomo[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] Chef Cuomo said numerous times to be very careful that all his outside activities do not take him out of the kitchen for too long. "It's very important to stay in my chef's uniform. I may be a CEO but the kitchen is my second home. You can only understand the feelings of your customers by being there, not just by asking staff."[13]

In December 2013, Tsujikuchi Hiroshi chef at Le Chocolat de H (Japan), owned by Salvatore Cuomo, wins the highest award for a Pastry Chef at the Salon Du Chocolat, International Pastry Competition held in Paris.[14]

In February 2014, Salvatore Cuomo opened his first restaurant in Taiwan. TVBS reported that the chef's move would help the country with an injection of $70 million in the economy.[15] [16]

Paul Huaug, pizzaiolo working for Chef Cuomo won the Caputo Cup (Taipei) in May 2014. Paul Huang is the first officially recognised Taiwanese pizzaiolo by the Italian Neapolitan Pizzaiolo Association[17]). Always the same month Salvatore Cuomo appears on Vogue Taiwan[18] and Taiwanese Television[19] storm the restaurant for the weeks after the competition as first Taiwanese Pizza Maker wins an international competition for the first time in the history of the country.

In June 2014, Taiwanese magazine Bazar named Cuomo the best thing that landed in Taiwan in 2014.[20]

TV and media

Salvatore started doing TV in Japan, hosting a TV cooking program on major television[21] and smaller channels.[22]

Every new opening is still today carefully followed by the Japanese Media[23]

In June 2010, Chinese Magazine Sina Fashion calls Salvatore "a gift from Naples" after the success of the first VPN Accredited Neapolitan Restaurant in mainland China.[24] [25]

In February 2013 South Korean editor Ju Younguk describes the moment Pizza first arrived in the country in 1985 as if history repeated itself with the first Salvatore Cuomo Restaurant opening in Korea. The food critic talks about Salvatore visiting local artisans in order to reproduce the authentic wood oven to bake pizza in Korea too, titleing him "a treat Precious in taste"[26]

In 2013 XEX Tokyo Restaurant owned by Salvatore Cuomo was described by Anthony Bourdain during his show Tokyo,[27] on the Travel Channel as the final destination for the Japanese elite.In 2019 Arirang TV Documentary about Chef Salvatore Cuomo In Busan Korea Travel Channel

Awards and honours

In June 2004 awarded by the ICF Worldwide Italian Cuisine Ambassador. A proponent of fresh italian cuisine, Cuomo was named the most influential Italian person in Japan.

In 2006, 2007 and 2008, Chef Cuomo placed in the first 3 positions at the International Pizza Festival held in Naples World Pizza Championship.

In 2009, he was honored Chevallier by the ORDRE DES COTEAUX DE CHAMPAGNE in recognition to his economic help to the wine industry and expansion of Italian and French products in Asia.

In 2010, he was named World Wide 1st. Ambassador of Mozzarella Bufala Campana.

In 2013 was awarded Parma Ham Specialist by the Parma Ham Prosciutto for his high quality restaurants where Parma Ham is used and his contribution to the industry.

In 2016 GUINNESS World Record for the longest Pizza in the world, 1855,88 meters (Leader Asia Pacific Section)

In 2017 UNESCO Committee Member of the Neapolitan Pizza Association: Listing of the Art of Neapolitan Pizza Making on UNESCO'S Intangible Cultural

2020-2025 San Pellegrino-Acqua Panna Brand Ambassador in Japan

Other

Books

References

2019 feb. Arirang TV Korea Documentary aout Chef Salvatore Cuomo in Busan

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.salvatore.jp/restaurant/ Salvatore Cuomo Restaurant list
  2. http://www.xexgroup.jp/ Salvatore Cuomo High Class Restaurant list
  3. http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/the-pizza-man Japan Today, The Pizza Man
  4. http://www.salvatore.jp/restaurant/ Ystable Corporation Restaurant List
  5. http://www.salvatore.jp/restaurant/ List of Salvatore Cuomo's Restaurants
  6. http://www.xexgroup.jp/ List of High Class Restaurants owned by Salvatore Cuomo
  7. http://media.yucasee.jp/posts/index/5306?la=bn05 Yucasee Media Japanese Newspaper
  8. http://article.wn.com/view/WNATb694870f8f97d430869c41d94c0e3ef3/ ANA Airline Join Salvatore Cuomo
  9. https://mikadoshimbun.com/news/2014/11-Pizza-Cuomo-Arrives-In-Okinawa.html ANA join Chef Cuomo
  10. http://okinawa-keizai.com/restaurant_category/%E3%80%90ana%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81%E3%83%8D%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AB%E4%B8%87%E5%BA%A7%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%81%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BE%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88/ Okinawa Magazine Ana Joins Salvatore Cuomo
  11. http://www.asahi.com/and_M/information/pressrelease/PRT201402030032.html The Asahi Shimbun
  12. http://news.infoseek.co.jp/article/prtimes_000000001_000009059 Infoseek Japanese Newspaper – Ana and Salvatore Cuomo United in Okinawa
  13. http://life.chinatimes.com/LifeContent/140602/20140315000648.html Salvatore Cuomo @ China Times Life
  14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voDpYQFij90 日本からスイーツ文化発信を チョコの祭典で最優秀賞の辻口博啓さん KYODO NEWS
  15. http://news.tvbs.com.tw/entry/520926 Salvatore Cuomo $70 million Move
  16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW-vOpEsfNs Salvatore Cuomo $70 million Move Video
  17. http://www.pizzaiuolinapoletani.it/en/news/229-pizzaioli-d-oriente.html First Time Taiwanese Champion
  18. http://www.vogue.com.tw/feature/foods/photo-14789-202216.html Vouge
  19. http://www.youtube.co/watch?v=XVS4-6zLwrI&feature=youtu.be TV Sensation in Taiwan as his Taiwanese Pizza Maker Wins the International Caputo Cup for the first time in the history of the country
  20. https://www.facebook.com/salvatorecuomo.taipei/photos/pcb.1509482472604912/1509480509271775/?type=1 Salvatore's Restaurant
  21. http://netjuku.jp/netjuku/contents/salvatore/sal001/index.jsp Cooking classes
  22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UAwYUW8Bb8 Juku Channel – Japanese TV
  23. http://kobe.keizai.biz/headline/1406/ Headlines Salvatore Open New Restaurant in Kobe
  24. http://style.sina.com.cn/taste/restau/2010-06-04/100662537_3.shtml Sina Fashion Magazine – Neapolitan Gift
  25. http://www.shanghaiwow.com/index.php/ Shanghai Wow Magazine
  26. http://article.joins.com/news/article/article.asp?Total_ID=10702826 Joins News Article – Salvatore Cuomo Precious Taste in Korea
  27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUBk_w_oZmU Antony Bourdain – No Reservation Tokyo XEX Restaurant