Kazuki Shimada Meister (Cooker (Japanese Cuisine))

Last Updated January 18, 2024

Kazuki Shimada Meister Face photo

Kazuki Shimada (Shimada)
Culinary (Japanese cuisine)

Selection for FY2019 (24th term)
Lives and works in Naka Ward

Born in Yamagata Prefecture in 1957
1975 Kappo Shimanhachiirisha
Chef Shimanhachi, cooking manager
Director of Kanagawa Prefectural Culinary Federation
Served as chairman of the Yokohama Yorozuya Shinyukai and a food hygiene instructor.

I want to convey the tradition of Japanese cuisine, such as Gomi, Goshiki, Five Sens senses, and Goho.

"Washoku was registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2013, and many high-quality Japanese restaurants have increased in Yokohama City, so even if one of the ways of folding paper is used, we would like to convey the tradition of Japanese cuisine, such as how to fold celebrations and non-holidays, leaves, Gomi, Goshiki, Five Sens, Five Laws, etc.," says Shimada.

He specializes in Japanese cuisine ritual "Knife-style", which boasts a tradition since the Heian period, and "Mukimono", which makes animals and plants from ingredients such as various vegetables. I want you to feel the joy that you have done. "

In addition to workshops at the Kanagawa Prefectural Culinary Federation and the Yokohama Yorozuya Shinyukai, we also actively engage in activities to convey the food culture of Yokohama, such as cutting vegetables (mukimono) at the Menu Foods SP Association practitioner workshop, and making dashi roll eggs at the Kanagawa Work and Skill Experience Festa.

Meister's skill

Kazuki Shimada's work on Meister

Using seasonal vegetables, we have excellent skills in the technique of "Mukimono", a skill of Japanese cuisine that has been handed down since ancient times as a method of expressing seasonal flowers, birds, and moons in cooking.

In addition, at the Yokohama Yorozuya Shinyukai, as a normal teacher at Shijo Shinryu's Shikiniku's Shikiniku knives, dedicated knives at Sankeien and Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu in Kamakura, and pass on skills to young people. .

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Kazuki Shimada's work on Meister

After graduating from high school, he joined Kappo Shimanpachi.
He trained under a teacher who is a teacher of the Japanese Cuisine Study Group, and became the chef in 1984.

Major Awards

1990 Yokohama City Excellent Skilled Engineer Award (The Mayor of Yokohama)
Received the Hamana-chan Cooking Contest Grand Prix in 2001
Received the Japan Culinary Association Chairman's Award in 2003
2009 Kanagawa Prefecture Excellent Hygiene Skilled Engineer Award (Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture)
Received the 2011 Consumer Achievement Award (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare)
2023 Yokohama City Skilled Workers Award (The Mayor of Yokohama)

Works by Kazuki Shimada Meister