Salvatore Cuomo

Salvatore Shigeta (born Salvatore Cuomo) is an Italian-born Japanese celebrity chef, restaurateur and media personality, known for his food-focused television shows and cookbooks, as well as for his restaurants across Asia.

Salvatore Cuomo
Born (1972-07-14) 14 July 1972
Naples, Italy
NationalityJapanese
Other namesSalvatore Shigeta
EducationCulinary School
OccupationSalvatore Cuomo International Ltd. (Brand Founder & CEO) Chef (C.O.O. Y's Table COrporation) Tokyo Stock Exchange #2798
Years active1984–present
TelevisionInternational & Japanese Television
Spouse(s)
Pia Schallenberger
(
m. 2014)
Children10 Children
Websitewww.salvatorecuomo.net
www.salvatore-cuomo.com
www.salvatore.jp
www.ystable.co.jp
www.salvatorecuomoph.com

www.salvatorecuomo.net

Salvatore Cuomo Career
EducationCulinary School, Chef, Pizzaiolo
Culinary career
Cooking styleItalian cuisine, Fresh and Organic

Known in Japan as "The Pizza Man" and "The Grand Chef", he strives to improve Italian cuisine internationally. Salvatore Cuomo Restaurants, Catering Services, Cookbooks and Licensed Products are run by Ystable Corporation, owned and operated by Seizaburo Kanayama and Salvatore Cuomo.

Early life

Salvatore Cuomo was born in Naples, Italy, in 1972, son of an Italian father and Japanese mother.

Cuomo was first inspired by his father who also was an Italian Chef in Naples. He began at the young age of 11, where he trained himself in the kitchen and traveled frequently between Italy and Japan. He gradually learned how to blend the traditional Italian art of cooking with the Japanese art of perfection.

A few years later he traveled to Japan with his father who opened an Italian restaurant in Chiba in 1984. About those early years Salvatore told the press that it wasn't a good starting experience: "I didn’t like Japan at all, so after one year, I went back to Italy and spent 2–3 years studying at a culinary school. When I was 18, I returned to Japan after my father became terminally ill and I have been here ever since."[3] Cuomo said that Italian Cuisine was just starting to get popular in those days. He and his two brothers decided that in order to succeed in the restaurant business in Japan they would have to understand the Japanese food mentality. They spent a couple of years researching the market before opening a new restaurant in Tokyo with what Cuomo calls "Original Neapolitan pizza."

Since that time, Cuomo has been credited with catapulting Neapolitan pizza to fame in Japan, and today in all Asia.[4]

Career

His first job was as pizzaiolo in Naples, where he first gained experience with preparing pizzas and Italian dishes, and developed a relationship with his mentor, his father.

Cuomo has been credited with catapulting Neapolitan pizza to fame in Japan and today he operates and supervises more than 77 Pizza Salvatore restaurants, and five The Kitchen Salvatore Cuomo restaurants (in Kyoto, Nagoya and Shanghai, Seoul Korea), as well as Salvatore Cuomo Bros (under the umbrella of XEX), BOTTEGA casual dining, Café al Grazie, and Italiaichiba Bar establishments.[5][6][7]

Cuomo has made numerous guest appearances on TV programs such as Iron Chef and Buona Sera, an Italian cooking program on WOWOW.

He has written three books: Welcome to Neapolitan Dining Table (1995), Happy Pasta (1997), Sun’s Dining Table (1999), One Life (2010), #PIZZAUNESCO 2016 (2016), #PIZZAUNESCO 2017 (2017)

In 2010 the Yucasee Newspaper reported Salvatore Cuomo collaborating with 辻口博啓氏 Tsujikuchi Hiroshi Akira, Japanese chef patissier-chocolatier.[8] In March 2014 ANA (All Nippon Airways) joins Salvatore Cuomo[9][10][11][12][13] Chef Cuomo said numerous times to be very careful that all his outside activities do not take him out of the kitchen for too long. "It's very important to stay in my chef's uniform. I may be a CEO but the kitchen is my second home. You can only understand the feelings of your customers by being there, not just by asking staff."[14]

In December 2013, Tsujikuchi Hiroshi chef at Le Chocolat de H (Japan), owned by Salvatore Cuomo, wins the highest award for a Pastry Chef at the Salon Du Chocolat, International Pastry Competition held in Paris.[15]

In February 2014 Salvatore Cuomo opened his first restaurant in Taiwan. TVBS reported that the chef's move would help the country with an injection of $70 million in the economy.[16][17]

Paul Huaug, pizzaiolo working for Chef Cuomo won the Caputo Cup (Taipei) in May 2014. Paul Huang is the first officially recognised Taiwanese pizzaiolo by the Italian Neapolitan Pizzaiolo Association[18]). Always the same month Salvatore Cuomo appears on Vogue Taiwan[19] and Taiwanese Television[20] storm the restaurant for the weeks after the competition as first Taiwanese Pizza Maker wins an international competition for the first time in the history of the country.

In June 2014 Taiwanese magazine Bazar named Cuomo the best thing that landed in Taiwan in 2014.[21] In June 2016 Open a New Restaurant in Philippine Manila BGC: Salvatore Cuomo & BAR Today, Salvatore Cuomo is the vice chairman, COO and Executive Chef of Y's Table Corporation (Tokyo Stock Exchange Market N.2798). and Owner-Founder C.E.O. of Salvatore Cuomo International LTD in Hong Kong

TV and media

Salvatore started doing TV in Japan, hosting a TV cooking program on major television[22] and smaller channels.[23]

Every new opening is still today carefully followed by the Japanese Media[24]

In June 2010 Chinese Magazine Sina Fashion calls Salvatore "a gift from Naples" after the success of the first VPN Accredited Neapolitan Restaurant in mainland China.[25][26]

In February 2013 South Korean editor Ju Younguk describes the moment Pizza first arrived in the country in 1985 as if history repeated itself with the first Salvatore Cuomo Restaurant opening in Korea. The food critic talks about Salvatore visiting local artisans in order to reproduce the authentic wood oven to bake pizza in Korea too, titleing him "a treat Precious in taste"[27]

In 2013 XEX Tokyo Restaurant owned by Salvatore Cuomo was described by Anthony Bourdain during his show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Tokyo,[28] on the Travel Channel as the final destination for the Japanese elite. In 2019 Arirang TV Documentary about Chef Salvatore Cuomo In Busan Korea Travel Channel

Awards and honours

In June 2004 awarded by the ICF Worldwide Italian Cuisine Ambassador. A proponent of fresh italian cuisine, Cuomo was named the most influential Italian person in Japan.

In 2006, 2007 and 2008, Chef Cuomo placed in the first 3 positions at the International Pizza Festival held in Naples World Pizza Championship.

In 2009 he was honored Chevallier by the ORDRE DES COTEAUX DE CHAMPAGNE in recognition to his economic help to the wine industry and expansion of Italian and French products in Asia.

In 2010 he was named World Wide 1st. Ambassador of Mozzarella Bufala Campana.

In 2013 was awarded Parma Ham Specialist by the Parma Ham Prosciutto for his high quality restaurants where Parma Ham is used and his contribution to the industry.

In 2017 UNESCO Committee Member of the Neapolitan Pizza Association: Listing of the Art of Neapolitan Pizza Making on UNESCO'S Intangible Cultural

Other

2017 UNESCO'S Committee Member of the Neapolitan Pizza Association: Listing of the Art of Neapolitan Pizza Making on UNESCO'S Intangible Cultural Heritage Loist in Cheju Iland Korea 2016 Asia Team Leader - Longest Pizza in the World in Naples, Italy, Guinness World Records 2014 Parma Ham Specialist 2013 APN Ambassador in Asia
2012 Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne (Officier)
2010 Shanghai EXPO EXECUTIVE CHEF Casa Italia 2009 Verace Pizza Napoletana Ambassador in the world 2009 Pizza World Championship 3rd. Classified PIZZA FEST NAPLES 2008 Pizza World Championship 2nd. Classified PIZZA FEST NAPLES 2007 Pizza World Championship 1st. Classified PIZZA FEST NAPLES

Books
  • Welcome to Neapolitan Dining Table (1995) (in Japanese)
  • Happy Pasta (1997) – Japanese Only (in Japanese)
  • Sun’s Dining Table (1999) (in Japanese)
  • One Life (2010) (in Japanese)
  • #PizzaUnesco (2016-2017) (in Italian)
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References
  1. Salvatore Cuomo Restaurant list
  2. Salvatore Cuomo High Class Restaurant list
  3. Japan Today, The Pizza Man
  4. Japan Today, The Pizza Man
  5. Ystable Corporation Restaurant List
  6. List of Salvatore Cuomo's Restaurants
  7. List of High Class Restaurants owned by Salvatore Cuomo
  8. Yucasee Media Japanese Newspaper
  9. ANA Airline Join Salvatore Cuomo
  10. ANA join Chef Cuomo Archived 6 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  11. Okinawa Magazine Ana Joins Salvatore Cuomo
  12. Asahi Newspaper – Shinbum
  13. Infoseek Japanese Newspaper – Ana and Salvatore Cuomo United in Okinawa
  14. Salvatore Cuomo @ China Times Life
  15. 日本からスイーツ文化発信を チョコの祭典で最優秀賞の辻口博啓さん KYODO NEWS
  16. Salvatore Cuomo $70 million Move
  17. Salvatore Cuomo $70 million Move Video
  18. First Time Taiwanese Champion Archived 14 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  19. Vouge
  20. TV Sensation in Taiwan as his Taiwanese Pizza Maker Wins the International Caputo Cup for the first time in the history of the country
  21. Salvatore's Restaurant
  22. Cooking classes
  23. Juku Channel – Japanese TV
  24. Headlines Salvatore Open New Restaurant in Kobe
  25. Sina Fashion Magazine – Neapolitan Gift
  26. Shanghai Wow Magazine
  27. Joins News Article – Salvatore Cuomo Precious Taste in Korea
  28. Antony Bourdain – No Reservation Tokyo XEX Restaurant

2019 feb. Arirang TV Korea Documentary aout Chef Salvatore Cuomo in Busan

Further reading
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