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Rei Watanabe, Chiara D’Amore-Klaiman, Alexa Wilkinson

Teaches at RESOBOX

Rei started working for Wine of Japan, a sake distributor 5 years ago with the responsibility of managing sales and marketing to restaurants and retailers in New Jersey and New York City. He has a wide range of sake-related knowledge such as how sake is produced, sake brands, and the sake industry in Japan and the U.S. Part of his extensive knowledge stems from his training at Kitaya sake brewery where he was part of a team that crafted sake and shochu from scratch.

Chiara D’Amore-Klaiman started out as a line cook working in various restaurants in New York City and Boston, gaining an appreciation for high quality products and developing an interest in cheese and wine. Chiara then left the kitchen to work in a pickle factory, then for a shellfish purveyor, before settling down as part of the wholesale team at Murray’s Cheese selling cheese to restaurant clients both here in New York City and across the country.

Alexa’s journey into the culinary arts started with a simple sip of craft beer, when she gave up a starving artist life and immersed herself into food & beverage. After 7+ years in the craft beer world & becoming a Certified Cicerone, she went to culinary school in NYC and became an Executive Chef and Food Director for several craft beer centric bars. All the while, developing a palate for food & beverage pairing. Alexa became quite taken with cheese throughout all of her years as a chef, and decided to hang up her knife roll and trade it for a cheese harp at Murray’s Cheese! She now works as a wholesale account manager, selling cheese to not only breweries and beer bars, but restaurants all over the greater NYC area and country.

Reviews of Rei Watanabe, Chiara D’Amore-Klaiman, Alexa Wilkinson

(1 Review)
  • Sake Meets Cheese

    Anonymous review on 9/18/2017
    It was a great concept and definitely felt the enthusiasm from the Murray's Cheese folls, but there was little to no education abour sake, which seemed like a missed opportunity.

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