Kanai and Wolff forged a path for other entrepreneurs, including Nobu Matsuhisa, who opened L.A.’s Matsuhisa in 1987 and parlayed that hit into a chain of Nobu restaurants and high-end hotels scattered around the world. L.A.’s sushi revolution began in the 1960s at Kawafuku, a grand Little Tokyo restaurant whose story is one of glamour, heartbreak and innovation. The city’s Japanese restaurants - Kawafuku in Little Tokyo and Yamashiro in Hollywood among them - were known for specializing in items such as sukiyaki, a beef dish calibrated for Americans’ sugar-craving tastes.īusiness This Little Tokyo restaurant is long gone. “Asian food just wasn’t part of that conversation,” said Nancy Matsumoto, an expert on Japanese food and co-author of “Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake.” “The world view was the Westernized world view.”Ĭultural cuisines often were presented as watered-down approximations. Casual diners ordered meatloaf and burgers at the local greasy spoon. French cuisine dominated fine dining, and drab Continental cooking could be found at restaurants across the city.
Sushi is good.”Īt the time, Los Angeles’ culinary landscape was lackluster. Kanai recalled Wolff’s earnest entreaty: “Kanai, go do sushi. And he wasn’t just eating - he was imagining how to bring sushi to L.A. Wolff explained that he had been slipping away to feast on sushi at Shinnosuke. It was, Kanai said, a shockingly large sum. Take this unforgettable journey with the man George Bernard Shaw called “the only genius to come out of the movie industry” as he moves from his impoverished South London childhood to the heights of Hollywood wealth and fame from the McCarthy-era investigations to his founding of United Artists to his “reverse migration” back to Europe, My Autobiography is a reading experience not to be missed.That’s when the restaurant sent a bill to Kanai’s Tokyo office - for about $275, which, when adjusted for inflation, is about $2,650 today. In this, one of the very first celebrity memoirs, Chaplin displays all the charms, peculiarities and deeply-held beliefs that made him such an endearing and lasting character. Scarce signed.Ĭhaplin’s heartfelt and hilarious autobiography tells the story of his childhood, the challenge of identifying and perfecting his talent, his subsequent film career and worldwide celebrity. Signed by the author on the dedication page, “Best wishes Charles Chaplin Oct 1968.” Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. First edition of “the best autobiography ever written by an actor.
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