
Five veterans of the Iron Chef America TV show gathered to welcome Sashi Restaurant’s Makoto Okuwa to their ranks last month. Those who were at the restaurant on July 8 had a chance for a sneak peek at that episode – but first, they enjoyed a dinner made by those same celebrity chefs. Chef Okuwa and his colleagues Morimoto, Noriyuki Sugie, Sonny Sweetman, Troy Thompson, and Michael Voltaggio each made one appetizer and one main course, assisted by over twenty sous-chefs and a huge support staff.

The car that is likely to be one of the showstoppers at the Palos Verdes Concours d’Elegance at Trump National Golf Course on September 18 and 19 doesn’t look like much at the moment. It’s a hulk sitting on a rack in a dusty workshop in El Segundo, lit eerily from below with droplights and occasional showers of sparks where a restorer is grinding an axle bracket.


