Shinzo Satomi (1937-2002) is the pen name used by Atsushi Naitoh for his gourmet writing. A columnist for Japan's leading monthly magazine Bungei Shunjuu (the Time magazine of Japan), Satomi covered the food and dining beat for the magazine for decades. He is considered among gourmands to be the father of Japan's B-Class Gourmet boom of the '90s, which developed after Japan's economic bubble burst in the late '80s. His "BEST OF" series of essays were trend-setting and king-making for those establishments that found themselves detailed with his passionate words.
