Masa Takayama quotes
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“I began cutting up fish when I was a little kid.”
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“I want to know what my food has been eating.”
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“In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.”
-- Masa Takayama -
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“Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.”
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“My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.”
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“My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?”
-- Masa Takayama
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“If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.”
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Source : "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.
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“Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!”
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“A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.”
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