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Masaharu Morimoto Quotes:

Masaharu Morimoto quotes

Ocupation: Chef

Life: b. May 26, 1955

Birthday: May 26

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Cook more often. Don't study; just cook.

Topics: Study, Cooks

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A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.

Topics: Knives, Kitchen, Kitchen Knives

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

Topics: Believe, Knives, Soul, Dishwashers

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

Topics: People, Best Food, Rely

You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

Topics: Soul, Dishwashers, Your Soul

Ramen is a dish that's very high in calories and sodium. One way to make it slightly healthier is to leave the soup and just eat the noodles.

Topics: Soup, Way, Noodles, Sodium, Ramen

On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.

Topics: Grateful, Japan, Earthquakes, Tsunami

New York is my, you know, second hometown.

source: - "TalkAsia" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.

Topics: New York, Hometown

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.

source: - "TalkAsia" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.

Topics: School, Years, Smell, Japanese Food, Fishy

When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.

Topics: Sweet, Home, Sleep, Guilty Pleasure

Because I'm a chef, I eat out frequently, so it's hard for me to control what I consume in terms of calories. But when I'm at home, I eat what my wife cooks for me. She works hard to avoid making foods that are high in calories and cholesterol, so most of the time, she makes vegetarian dishes.

Topics: Hard Work, Home, Wife, Cholesterol, High Cholesterol

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.

Topics: Thinking, Knives, People, Japanese Food

A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable.

source: - "TalkAsia" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.

Topics: Thinking, People, Want

I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home.

Topics: Home, Soy Sauce, Use, Soy, Flakes

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

Topics: Mean, Italian, Thinking, Indian Food, Korean Food

I dont eat anything on an airplane.

Topics: Airplane

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

source: - "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.

Topics: Dream, Baseball, Team, Hiroshima, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

Topics: Cooking, Way, Want

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi

Topics: Art, Sushi

I've been making sushi for 38 years, and I'm still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish.

Topics: Color, Years, Sushi

I always have dashi in my refrigerator - it's the almighty Japanese ingredient.

source: - "The Fast Five | Speedy Cooking Tips from Top Experts". Food & Wine Magazine Interview, www.foodandwine.com. September 1, 2004.

Topics: Ingredients, Refrigerators, Almighty

I want to expand my cuisine to this country. I love America. I have been here 22 years.

Topics: Country, America, Years

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

Topics: Fighting, Roots, Soul

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