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A Career In Sake:  Curating Sake Lists, Collaborating With Breweries And Educating Future Professionals
Episode 364

A Career In Sake: Curating Sake Lists, Collaborating With Breweries And Educating Future Professionals

Japan Eats! · Heritage Radio Network

April 16, 202555m 40s

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Show Notes

Our guest is Daniel Bennett who is the sake sommelier at Sushi-san www.sushisanrestaurant.com and The Omakase Room at Sushi-san www.theomakaseroom.com in Chicago.  Both are a part of Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants, which is an independent, family-owned restaurant group that owns, manages and licenses more than 110 restaurants nationwide with over 60 concepts ranging from fast casual to fine dining.

 

Daniel is a certified sake sommelier and has approximately 15 years of deep experience working in Japanese food and sake.

 

In this episode, we will discuss how he built his career in sake, what types of sake people are drinking in America now, his collaboration with a 200-year-old sake brewery to make a private label for his guests, how he trains his staff to get certified as sake sommeliers and much, much more!!!

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