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What Is Yakitori?
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49 minutes
Released:
Jun 22, 2021
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Our guest is Michael Gerard who is the founder and president of Wildwood Ovens & BBQ (Instagram) based in California. Michael manufactures various wood-fired cooking equipment including yakitori grills. Yakitori is grilled chicken on skewers and its simplicity demands tremendous skills and experience of the cook, not to mention great equipment. Michael is one of the very few yakitori grill manufacturers in the U.S. In this episode, we will discuss how Michael got into producing wood-fired cooking equipment, where his passion for high quality food comes from, what exactly yakitori is, a unique and powerful fuel used to make yakitori called binchotan and much, much more!!!Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Japan Eats by becoming a member!Japan Eats is Powered by Simplecast.
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Jun 22, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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