“Third Culture: a Nisei Collaboration Series” spotlights chefs with layered, plural identities and creates a platform to celebrate diversity in the culinary arts. The series traces a living history—from first- and second-generation pioneers who forged their own genres to chefs cooking across borders in Chef Yoshimura’s cultural homeland of Japan.

Each dinner culminates in an open dialogue with guests, where collaborating chefs speak frankly about the trials and triumphs of being mixed culture—the moments of translation, the creative tension, and the joy of cooking from more than one home.