The kit commemorates sister city friendship between Crescent City, Calif., and Rikuzentakata, Japan.
Crescent City, Calif.-based Rumiano Cheese Co. says it released the Kamome Chef Box, a limited-edition home chef culinary kit. Curated to commemorate the sister city friendship between Crescent City and Rikuzentakata, Japan, the kit is available online. It features a very special edition of Rumiano’s classic Dry Jack cheese that has been aged one year and finished with sea salt from Hirota Bay in Rikuzentakata, Japan. All profits from Kamome Chef Box sales will benefit the sister city high school student exchange program that funds scholarships for two students in Crescent City and two students in Rikuzentakata to visit opposite sides of the world for a cultural and educational experience.
Highlighted during the recent Summer Olympic Games broadcast in an NBC Sports documentary, the two cities developed ties after a boat named “Kamome” from Takata High School in Rikuzentakata washed ashore in Crescent City, two years after having been swept out to sea by the tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake. A story of hope was realized when students at Del Norte High School cleaned the boat and returned it to the Japanese high school. The relationship continued to deepen over the years, and in 2019, Rumiano Cheese Co. says it traveled to Rikuzentakata with the North Coast Trade Delegation to forge a formal sister city relationship and student exchange program.