Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of a popular tradition in the North Bay, the Enmanji Teriyaki Barbecue in Sebastopol. In addition to the secret-recipe teriyaki chicken, the small town also serves up some lessons in humanity.
Each year, the Enmanji Buddhist Temple welcomes thousands of their neighbors for a barbecue chicken dinner with a Japanese flair and a family secret: the teriyaki sauce that is sprayed onto the 1,200 chickens roasting over the giant coal pits.
Barbecue master Brent Ono couldn’t even remember how many years he’d been cooking there…