A sushi chef has to spot the best-quality fresh fish instantly.


Nobu Matsuhisa

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I'm a lucky person because the company keeps growing, and that means my team keeps growing.
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Once I fell out of a tree and was hit by a motorbike. I still have the scar on my head now.
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Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.
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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.
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You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.
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Lunt was trained as a chef. He liked to use fresh food in his cooking.
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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.
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Marry your Daughter and eat fresh Fish betimes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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ANTHONY BOURDAIN
endless puzzles made up on the spot, all fresh and original.
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Eating sushi has become the new Russian roulette.
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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...
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I went to Japan as a 4-H international exchange student last year and had sushi there and loved it. ...
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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.
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You'll always find me at a good sushi spot. Once, at a restaurant, a cook came out from the kitc...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY
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I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research op...
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Fresh fish and new-come guests smell when they are three days old.
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It's best of both worlds. It's a concept that has stayed relevant, yet it has retained the heritage ...
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What I want to do is just get myself in shape here. I came to the best spot in the American League. ...
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Fresh seafood reminds me of Hawaii and eating raw ahi fish on the beach with a little soy sauce - in...
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Fresh is best.
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No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.
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We provide our customers with the sweet spot of coffee, where value meets quality.
JOHN GILBERT
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They're not bringing me to fill a spot on the roster, I'm going to be competing for quality playing ...
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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...
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We have talked. We are going to have dinner in mid week. Wednesday night, I am taking Brian to the b...
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He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresse...
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He had a rocky spot in a ditch back in one of the creeks, and the fish were really piled up on it. T...
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How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a...
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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.
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We're just trying to put Will in the best spot for him.
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He is the first chef-restaurateur who has dared to admit openly, and even elevate to the status of a...
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TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.
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My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
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My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
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Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you t...
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How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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Each and every chef has his or her own way of making the broth.
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old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history
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Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
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'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'
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