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A post on Shibumi’s Instagram account on Thursday, April 15 sparked a wave of criticism from members of Los Angeles’s Japanese-American community. The Michelin-starred restaurant in downtown Los Angeles, best known for chef and owner David Schlosser’s adherence to traditional Japanese cookery, shared a post intended to advertise its sakura mochi dessert special but instead ignited a conversation around colonization, cuisine ownership, and authenticity. It also raised questions about the implications of a white chef who built his career on Japanese food and was recently named a Japanese Cuisine Goodwill Ambassador publicly disparaging Japanese restaurants to promote his own business. ....

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