Dinner and Music Hosted by Philip Gelb.

Philip is a Vegan Chef, Musician and a Teacher.

He hosts a monthly "DINNER AND MUSIC" event in which he prepares all vegan cuisine and invites a special guest musician to provide the entertainment. Check his web site for more information. In this event, he prepared every dish with a tea that we provided him with. AWESOME. To read the entire story behind this event, CLICK HERE!

Below is Menu of the Evening.

	As the guests enter, they are greeted with cold infused Karigane Cha from Kyoto served in a Tempered Wine Stem.
	First course, soup ochazuke (using genmaicha green tea; a Japanese variety combining 2 kinds of tea and roasted rice) paired with a cold infused Kyoto Bancha
	Next, salad cucumber wrapped in daikon slices with fried oolong tea leaves and apricot sauce
	Served with Sakura/Aojiso/Gold Leaf tea (yeah, there really are gold flecks in this tea!)
	Entree green tea noodles (matcha) fried tofu balls stuffed with lotus root, carrot, sesame seed, ginger, basil with an oolong-walnut sauce daikon pickled with Shincha and cherry blossoms with a side of gyokuro tea leaves with shoyu
	Served with an Oolong from Taiwan called Oriental Beauty
	Performing this night was the incredible koto player, Shoko Hikage. Shoko is originally from Akita Japan where she grew up playing koto. After College she became a house student of the great avant garde koto players, Kazue and Tadao Sawai. Shoko and Phil co-founded a group, "Natto" several years ago which has released 2 highly acclaimed CDs and toured in the States and Japan

	Dessert matcha 3 ways matcha cake w/ maple matcha ice cream and matcha covered raspberries accompanied by a Premium Blooming Tea served in a Tempered Wine Stem.