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World Chef: Silk Road travels inspire LA"s Hinoki & the Bird

1 of 2. Chef and owner of the restaurant Hinoki & the Bird David Myers (R) poses with chef Kuniko Yagi in the restaurant with one of their signature dishes, hinoki scented black cod, sweet potatoes and pistachios in Los Angeles April 19, 2013.

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LOS ANGELES | Tue Jul 16, 2013 4:18am EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The exotic, earthy aroma from smoking sheets of smoldering hinoki wood hovering over exquisite black cod is the first hint that diners at celebrated chef David Myers’ newest restaurant are in for a culinary adventure.

Hinoki & the Bird, the Japanophile chef’s Silk Road-inspired restaurant, borrows heavily from the travels of Myers and Executive Chef Kuniko Yagi, who left banking a decade ago and worked her way up from the kitchen’s lowest rungs to her current, globe-trotting career.

The sleekly casual eatery, located near some of Los Angeles’ top talent agencies, is a departure from Sona, Myers’ elegant, Michelin one-star restaurant that opened in 2002 – a year before Food & Wine magazine bestowed on him a prestigious “Best New Chef” award.

After Sona closed in 2010, Myers and his executive chef hit the road – eating, tweeting and picking up inspiration throughout Asia.

Their journeys inform dishes such as spicy sambal skate wing, drunken duck breast and hinoki-scented black cod, the head-turning dish referenced earlier.

The telegenic duo, who are familiar to fans of foodie shows such as “Top Chef” and “Iron Chef America,” spoke with Reuters about how travel informed their careers and their latest project.

Q: David, what was the inspiration for Hinoki & the Bird’s name?

A: Hinoki is an incredible cypress tree in Japan that has the most wonderful aroma. The bird component was to capture the essence of travel and how important travel is to the creative process. It’s about the connection from California to Japan. We chronicle the bird’s travel and bring it into the menu.

Q: David, what is your vision for Hinoki & the Bird?

A: I think California is the gateway to Asia. The idea is to showcase the California bounty and the scent of the Silk Road. The flavors are light, vibrant and healthy. You can come in and eat several different things and you’re not feeling heavy. You’re feeling sharp and you’re ready to go the next day. I’ve only felt that in Asia – where you can eat a lot and drink a lot and feel great. The food of Southeast Asia is nothing but drinking food – it’s about going around having beers and going to the next place.

Q: David, which dish on Hinoki & the Bird’s menu best illustrates how your travels through Southeast Asia have influenced your food?

A: The sambal skate wing. That’s our version of a barbecue skate wing from a hawker’s stand in Singapore. That’s the classic hawker stand dish.

Q: Kuniko, what inspired you to leave banking and become a chef?

A: I wanted to make sure I could have a job anywhere in the world. I thought, maybe if I can cook really well I can go anywhere in the world and be able to have a job. (In the beginning) I wasn’t able to speak English much – but I thought I could mimic what people in the kitchen do.

Q: Kuniko, what advice would you give someone who makes a similar career leap?

A: Be humble about who you want to be. Nothing good happens in a year. I’ve been doing this for 10 years already. I started late. I was patient, and I had a couple of times where I wondered if I made the right choice.

Drunken Duck Breast

1/2 cup sake kasu (sake lees, a yeast by-product of sake making)

1 cup warm water

2 duck breasts

Salt & black pepper to taste

Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.

In a small pot, place sake kasu and warm water and whisk over low heat until broken down to a loose texture. Remove from heat and let cool.

Score duck skin in a cross-hatch pattern and season with salt and pepper on both sides.

Cover the breasts with the sake kasu and cover with plastic wrap. Let it rest in the refrigerator for one hour.

Wash sake kasu off from duck breast and place the duck skin side down in a sauté pan over low heat, being careful not to burn. Render the skin from the breast, discarding the fat as you go.

When the skin has a golden brown color, place the breast in the oven for 7 minutes, skin side up, for medium rare.

(Reporting by Lisa Baertlein; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)

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News in Brief: Bird penises start strong, wither away

Male chickens lose phalluses before hatching

By Cristy Gelling

Web edition: June 6, 2013

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A false-color micrograph shows the rudimentary penis (pink) of a chick embryo before it begins to shrink.

Credit: A.M. Herrera and M.J. Cohn, University of Florida

Some ducks have penises longer than their bodies, while chickens make do with a tiny bump. The vast size difference between the two types of fowl is due to a wave of cell death during chicken development, researchers report June 6 in Current Biology.

Although the ancestors of birds had penises, 97 percent of bird species have phalluses so small that they can’t insert into the female genitalia. Martin Cohn of the University of Florida and his colleagues found that in chick embryos, a gene turns on in the tip of the developing phallus, causing the cells to die and the tissue to wither away. In duck embryos, the gene does not turn on and the penis keeps on growing.

The researchers were able to kick-start some growth of the embryonic chick penis by blocking the action of the gene. That result suggests that chickens have not entirely lost the genetic pathways that make their waterfowl relatives better endowed.

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Sexagenarian Chinese confirmed with bird flu in Fujian

Iran Press TV

Fri Apr 26, 2013 12:59PM GMT

The deadly outbreak of H7N9 bird flu in China has spread to the country’s southeastern province Fujian, the second announcement in two days of a case in a new location.

Fujian’s local health bureau said on Friday that a 65-year-old man was confirmed to have the virus.

This comes one day after the eastern province of Jiangxi confirmed its first case of H7N9, in a 69-year-old-man.

More than 110 Chinese have been confirmed with H7N9 since a March 31 official announcement that the virus had been found in humans.

With 23 deaths, the cases have mostly been confined to eastern China, while one case has been reported in the island of Taiwan.

Experts are warning that the area of the epidemic might continue to expand before the source of the deadly avian influenza is brought under effective control.

Reporting in The Lancet medical journal on Thursday, Chinese researchers said they had confirmed poultry as a source of H7N9 flu among humans.

But fears are rising that the virus might twist out of hand, mutating into a form easily transmissible between humans and consequently trigger a pandemic.

Wrapping up a week-long visit to China on Wednesday, a World Health Organization (WHO) delegation confirmed there had been no human-to-human transmission.

Chinese health officials have acknowledged so-called ‘family clusters,’ that is the infection of members of a single family, but have declined to call it human-to-human transmission.

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