Arizona's cunning culinary wizard Chef Kaz Yamamoto prepares taboo illegal moveable feasts for the elite and über -rich
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Kaz Yamamoto in the storage area of his home kitchen.
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He be stylin': Chef Kaz Yamamoto at his Anthem compound, lounging in imported silk pajamas before a bighorn sheep he bagged last year.
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I at first hoped he was joking, but Yamamoto was not smiling.
Despite the patronage of Senator Kyl, I suspect the days of Le Menu are numbered, but until Yamamoto flees for Europe, one step ahead of Sheriff Arpaio or the feds, his black-market banquets will continue unabated for those with the bankroll and gall to consume endangered species and even human flesh with all the aplomb of swells sipping rare vintages at the Pointe Hilton or The Phoenician. As Yamamoto knows, when it comes to pleasing adventurous palates, pretty much anything goes.
Steve 04/12/2012 2:30:00 AM
I know-pure genius, one of my favorite articles ever!
Steve 04/12/2012 2:28:00 AM
This was the best article ever-a total hoax at it's finest!
THERESA SISKIND RN 03/11/2008 1:27:00 AM
I actually felt the presence of evil, for this is the work of satan.
Patricia 02/14/2008 4:15:00 AM
Wow.
Tara 08/24/2007 4:34:00 PM
I am nauseated after reading this article. I am the proud parent of two wonderful Bichon Frises and I cannot possibly imagine someone raising them as livestock!! Is this for real? I don't even know what to think. I am new to Phoenix metro and I am disgusted at this article. I certainly hope this is not the norm for the city.
bwm 07/24/2007 2:25:00 PM
It looks like this group of kids found out how to eat themselves , biblically. Someone should teach them that they are what they eat.
dyosa 07/24/2007 1:53:00 PM
This "writer" talks about Asia as if he knows the ins and out of the continent, hinting that the dog is a big part of the Asian diet. Well, you should know that your Chef Yamamoto of Japan is your typical Japanese: boastful and often name drops. For you to write a few paragraphs of the people that he knows and on how he has gotten away with the law and on how stupid Maricopa's sheriff is is simply gut-wrenching. You use the names of rich and/or famous people as if they are big supporters of this offensive (not only to foodies but also to nature preservers) so-called cuisine. Well, Mike Tyson did end his career by helping himself to the ear of his opponent. Did your poor excuse of a "chef" serve that, too? Then woman who is supposedly his long-time companion ought to be very afraid as she could be next on the menu as a fricassee of old love. So, what is next on the menu? Perhaps a slow-roasted human infant? I think that the editor of this vessel ought to re-examine this "writer". The man is writing fiction and passing it off as real. Besides, one that can not respect what should be preserved, respect the law because it is the law will have no respect for another human life. This is shameful and nauseating that this has taken place in Arizona.
Imagine my horror when all I was doing was looking for a Bichon Frise to adopt and this comes up.
lsv 07/24/2007 1:23:00 PM
I have wanted to visit and dine at the Wrigley Mansion. By the way I was born and raised in Asia. This is despicable!!! My curiosity about the Wrigley Mansion has changed drastically. I have eaten animal parts most westerners do not even know about but they are all part of the animal that has already been slaughtered for the commercial meat market. The killing of a dog for meat to feed the curiosity of the "uber rich" is beyond reproach. "To whom much is given, much is expected" I am disgusted at the writer for writing about the dog meat and lying to the world on how barbaric "most parts of asia" is. One should not write about things they know little about, otherwise, it is nothing but fiction. This is repulsive to say the least. And you are supposed to be some writer in Phoenix, AZ?!?
Marquez 07/12/2007 10:01:00 PM
I was living in Phoenix when this piece came out, and it completely changed my opinion of Stephen Lemons. I'd always hated his columns. I thought he was a hack who tried to hide his lack of talent behind goofy blizzards of adjectives. But then... this... this work of GENIUS. I like how it makes rich elites and right-wing earth-killers look so disgusting (because, you know, they basically are) -- but then all these credulous bleeding hearts totally bought it, and wrote in all angry the following week, and some people started crying racist, so in the end EVERYONE looked like idiots! Bullseye!
I should've said it when this piece first ran: Mr. Lemons, I tip my hat to you. You need to write a novel or something.
CAROLE 06/28/2007 12:16:00 AM
This is beyond words of disgust.
Next it will be an article on cannibalism.
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