本山尚義：Potentiality of world cuisine

MOTOYAMA Naoyoshi

世界のごちそう博物館代表。幼少期、鍵っ子の経験から台所で過ごす時間が多く、料理好きになる。19歳よりフランス料理店で働き始めるが、27歳の時に強制的に連れていかれたインドでインド料理にはまる。以後、日本のインド料理屋店やアジア料理店で修行を経験しながら、世界30か国を巡り、現地で料理を教わる。33歳の時、世界の料理とお酒が楽しめるレストランをオープン。2年間で195か国の料理を提供するイベントを開催し「世界の料理で世界を平和にする」と言うメッセージを伝えた。その後、17年続けてきたレストランを盛業中にも関わらずいきなり閉店。もっと世界の歴史や文化を伝えたいと、世界の料理のレトルト製造販売を始める。現在はさらに世界の料理の可能性を追求し、講演、セミナー、執筆活動を通じて、難民の支援、飢餓の支援などを精力的に行っている。

MOTOYAMA Naoyoshi is the representative of Palermo, a world’s cuisine factory kitchen. When he was a child, he was a latchkey kid and spent long hours in the kitchen, which made him love cooking. At the age of 19, he started to work at a French restaurant. When he was 27 years old, he was forcibly taken to India, where he was really into their local cuisines. Since then on, while he had worked and learned at Indian and Asian restaurants in Japan, he travelled around 30 countries to learn their local dishes. At age 33, he opened his own restaurant where customers can savour wines and dishes from over the world. In 2 years, served dishes from 195 countries at the events he organised. His message through his cuisines is : Food from the World Brings Peace over the World. After 17 years, he suddenly closed his restaurant for good despite it was very popular and his business was pretty thriving, which surprised us a lot. Instead he launched his business to produce his original boil-in-pouch cuisines from the world for sale. He wishes to spread histories and cultures of the world to Japanese people. Now he is pursuing powers and possibilities of cuisines from the world, and through lectures, seminars, writings, he is proactively doing his refugee relief activities as well as seeking for starvation solutions.