JANE SNOW AND TONY KAWAGUCHI CELEBRATE 16th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

 

Jane Snow, the best BJ food writer (and there was plenty of excellent competition) in history, and Japanese native and sushi chef Tony Kawaguchi celebrated their 16^th wedding anniversary at Henry Wahner’s in Kent, a restaurant Jane reviewed for the BJ more than 30 years ago.

Quips Jane: ‘It’s just as good as when I reviewed it. Tony has held up well, too.”

When Jane walked into Tony’s Sushi Katsu restaurants in the Merriman Valley, where I have enjoyed the cuisine from time to time, Tony swept her off her feet when he hugged her into the air and said, “You’re going to be my girlfriend.”

Two weeks later, they were engaged. The next year, they were married.

When a sushi chef marries a food writer you know that’s a match made in cuisine heaven.

There were two Snows who were BJ food wrtiers. The first was Glenna Snow, whose 1944 “Glenna Snow’s Cook Book” has been purchased for decades and decades.

BJ readers thought for decades that Glenna and Joan were related. They aren’t. Just had Snow for a surname.

In between was Polly Paffilas, Charlene Nevada and Connie Bloom.

Glenna retired from the BJ in 1944. Jane, who started at the BJ in 1979, in 2006.

Jane once told me:

“Glenna Snow’s son called me once from his home in Biloxi, Mississippi. He wanted to know why the BJ was still using his mother’s name. Her cookbook usually can be found at The Bookseller in Wallhaven.”