A sushi chef has to spot the best-quality fresh fish instantly.
Nobu Matsuhisa
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When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japa...
MASAHARU MORIMOTO As a chef, I prefer fish over meat,
TYLER FLORENCE One day, the people who work in my kitchen stir-fried chopped Napa cabbage to serve with some meat o...
NOBU MATSUHISA Napa cabbage is very beautiful, all those long, pale leaves with ruffled edges.
NOBU MATSUHISA My business partner Robert De Niro knows a lot about hotels; he opened the Greenwich Hotel in New Yo...
NOBU MATSUHISA I eat soup noodles for comfort. In fact, noodles of any kind. It's a food that is very easy to e...
NOBU MATSUHISA I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother co...
NOBU MATSUHISA I like both potatoes and rice. You can do a lot with both of them. But if I could eat only one carbo...
NOBU MATSUHISA I am very lucky to consider many of my business associates friends. Some are closer than others, but...
NOBU MATSUHISA I learned from my first restaurant: Make customers happy, make sure the customer comes back again. A...
NOBU MATSUHISA When I'm home in L.A., I go to La Brea, a bakery which does artisan breads, excellent sourdoughs...
NOBU MATSUHISA Cooking is like fashion. Always, I like to try to change. If I'm traveling in a different countr...
NOBU MATSUHISA I love big shrimp, like Japanese botan shrimp and the meaty ones from Santa Barbara, Calif. In class...
NOBU MATSUHISA Swimming keeps me fit and flexible, and it helps that I have a large pool at my house in Beverly Hil...
NOBU MATSUHISA The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.
NOBU MATSUHISA My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying...
NOBU MATSUHISA Sushi is something very exclusive. It is not like a McDonald's, not like a hot dog, not like a F...
NOBU MATSUHISA I'm not perfect. I am not Iron Man.
NOBU MATSUHISA Eating a lot on the plane is not good for jet lag.
NOBU MATSUHISA I'm a lucky person because the company keeps growing, and that means my team keeps growing.
NOBU MATSUHISA Have you ever been to Mexico City and haggled with the locals over souvenirs? Well, in Peru, you had...
NOBU MATSUHISA Once I fell out of a tree and was hit by a motorbike. I still have the scar on my head now.
NOBU MATSUHISA When I was 11 or 12 - a young boy in Japan - one of my older brothers took me to a sushi restaurant....
NOBU MATSUHISA Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.
NOBU MATSUHISA When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.
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NOBU MATSUHISA Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.
NOBU MATSUHISA Every year, I do a New Year's day party at my home. I invite my staff and my friends and their k...
NOBU MATSUHISA The summer is the best time. You use polarized sunglasses to spot steelhead, and you fish for them.
WAYNE ORZEL In Japanese, sushi does not mean raw fish. It means seasoned rice.
GUY FIERI You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.
RAF SIMONS Lunt was trained as a chef. He liked to use fresh food in his cooking.
JUDY MCNAMARA If a customer doesn't like sushi, I like to recommend the seafood salad. Even though it's still raw ...
KEUN CHOI Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food....
MASAHARU MORIMOTO The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish
JACQUES COUSTEAU Visitors and fish, remain fresh for 3 days.
DUTCH PROVERB Marry your Daughter and eat fresh Fish betimes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN endless puzzles made up on the spot, all fresh and original.
WAYNE GOULD Eating sushi has become the new Russian roulette.
ELI SADDLER I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas' shop for the best chocolate in North Am...
DANIEL BOULUD Think of the sushi trend that started in the '80s. It was as much about the Nintendo entertainme...
DAVID SAX I went to Japan as a 4-H international exchange student last year and had sushi there and loved it. ...
CAITLIN DAVIS Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.
The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS I said, I myself eat fresh fish several times a week and give it to my children.
JENS STOLTENBERG You'll always find me at a good sushi spot. Once, at a restaurant, a cook came out from the kitc...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY Most fresh-water fish eat water fleas at some point in their lives. They are an important food sourc...
DEREK J. TAYLOR I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research op...
SHUJI NAKAMURA Fresh fish and new-come guests smell when they are three days old.
FRENCH PROVERB It's best of both worlds. It's a concept that has stayed relevant, yet it has retained the heritage ...
BOB CUTLER Bravo is incredibly proud of 'Top Chef,' and the steady growth of the series is a true testament to ...
FRANCES BERWICK When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room ...
JOHN O'TOOLE Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the...
PEGGY NOONAN You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my...
NADIA GIOSIA What I want to do is just get myself in shape here. I came to the best spot in the American League. ...
STEVE SHIELDS I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all tha...
ELLE FANNING When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living r...
JOHN O'TOOLE Fresh seafood reminds me of Hawaii and eating raw ahi fish on the beach with a little soy sauce - in...
MARIE HELVIN Fresh is best.
DIE BOOTH No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.
MORLEY SAFER This is attributed to the quality of the programs as they replicate what Operation Fresh Start began...
JUDY OLSON We provide our customers with the sweet spot of coffee, where value meets quality.
JOHN GILBERT Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN They're not bringing me to fill a spot on the roster, I'm going to be competing for quality playing ...
ROBERT GARRISON Fish are usually scattered in those conditions, and you'll generally just find individual bass. If y...
MIKE AUTEN He catches the best fish who angles with a golden hook
LATIN PROVERB In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a pr...
J. A. DEVER In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a pr...
J. A. DEVER We have talked. We are going to have dinner in mid week. Wednesday night, I am taking Brian to the b...
ARN TELLEM He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresse...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I've been making sushi for 38 years, and I'm still learning. You have to consider the size a...
MASAHARU MORIMOTO He had a rocky spot in a ditch back in one of the creeks, and the fish were really piled up on it. T...
KEVIN KOONE I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; wh...
DANIEL BOULUD How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a...
VIRGINIA WOOLF We wanted to have the biggest fish on the best lake at the best time of the year.
DON RUCKS Water quality standards go up every two years, ... More than anything, fresh water is the key.
JOHN STOCKTON Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH We're just trying to put Will in the best spot for him.
GREG BURNS He is the first chef-restaurateur who has dared to admit openly, and even elevate to the status of a...
ALAIN DUCASSE TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.
ALAIN DUCASSE My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
BEVERLEY MITCHELL My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
BEVERLY MITCHELL The Protestant teachings caused people to view their work as a way of proving their love to God so t...
SUNDAY ADELAJA We want to make it available to somebody who wants to make a quality restaurant in the mid-valley. W...
CHARLES CUNNIFFE I had never read a word, nor seen a movie. I had to immerse and educate myself. But the advantage is...
STEVEN DIETZ There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are...
RON BEN-ISRAEL Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you t...
SARAH DESSEN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Each and every chef has his or her own way of making the broth.
MAI PHAM A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is some...
WOLFGANG PUCK Saracens are widely tipped for a top-four spot this season, and we always welcome the opportunity to...
JOHN BRAIN I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I...
JENNIFER MORRISON old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history
AMY TAN Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW I like to find a spot where a strong tide runs into a mangrove shoreline and then diverts down that ...
JOHN GRIFFITH There are also a few big fish being caught deep with cranks, but the best bite for the most fish is ...
LONNIE STANLEY There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. At Zomick...
ZOMICK'S BAKERY 'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'
TOM COLICCHIO
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