Chef Masaharu Morimoto Comes to the NY Anime Fest Aug 27th 2008 WORLD FAMOUS FUSION CHEF ATTENDS
JAPANESE POP CULTURE EVENT AS A GUEST OF HONOR
Norwalk, CT, August 27, 2008: The New York
[COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]Anime [COLOR=blue ! important]Festival[/color][/color][/color] (NYAF) today announced Chef Masaharu Morimoto -- star of Iron Chef and Iron Chef America -- will attend its 2008 event as a Guest of Honor. The New
[COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]York[/color][/color] Anime Festival, an anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture convention from the creators of New York Comic Con, takes place September 26th through the 28th at the Jacob Javits Center in New York, NY. Chef Morimoto will attend NYAF's first day, conducting a question-and-answer session with fans from 4 to 5 PM and a book signing from 5 to 6 PM. Festival attendees are then invited to visit Chef Morimoto's eponymous restaurant -- Morimoto -- from 7 to 9 PM on the last day of the New York Anime Festival for NYAF's Official After Party. Morimoto Restaurant is located at 88 10th Avenue in Manhattan. The New York Anime Festival's After Party will take place in Morimoto's downstairs bar and is open to all NYAF attendees, exhibitors, professionals, and press.
"All of us here at the New York Anime Festival are honored to have Chef Morimoto join us this year," NYAF Show Manager Lance Fensterman said. "Masaharu Morimoto has done more to expose America to Japanese cooking than perhaps any other chef in the last decade, and we are eager to give him a platform in America's biggest city to celebrate his accomplishments and open a few more hearts, minds, and bellies to Japanese cuisine."
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