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Salvatore Shigeta ( born Salvatore Cuomo ) is an Italian-born Japanese celebrity chef, restaurateur and media personality, known for his food-focused television shows and cookbooks, as well as for his restaurants across Asia. Known in Japan as "The Pizza Man" and "The Grand Chef", he strives to improve Italian cuisine internationally. Salvatore Cuomo Restaurants, Catering Services, Cookbooks and Licensed Products are run by Ystable Corporation, owned and operated by Seizaburo Kanayama and Salvatore Cuomo. == Early life == Salvatore Cuomo was born in Naples, Italy in 1972 by 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 traveled 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."〔(Japan Today, The Pizza Man )〕 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.〔(Japan Today, The Pizza Man )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Salvatore Cuomo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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