Nobu Matsuhisa
Nobu Matsuhisa
Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisais a celebrity chef and restaurateur known for his fusion cuisine blending traditional Japanese dishes with Peruvian ingredients. His signature dish is black cod in miso...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth10 March 1949
CountryJapan
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I travel all over the world, usually 10 months out of the year. I stay at a lot of hotels, and the ones I like best are clean and not complicated. You go to bed and say, 'Wow, I feel comfortable.'
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It's true that cilantro has a strange, strong flavor. People seem to love it or not like it at all. Even I didn't like it at first when I had it in Peru. But I got used to it - it's hard not to in South America - and now I can't live without it.
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It's not unusual for me to wake up in the middle of the night and not know where I am. I take sleep medication to deal with all the flights. But I find it helps to eat at the same time every day.
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In the morning and the end of every day, I thank that I'm alive.
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In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working.
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I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.
I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.
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I learned from my first restaurant: Make customers happy, make sure the customer comes back again. And automatically, success has followed me.
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I am very lucky to consider many of my business associates friends. Some are closer than others, but I respect and value all of them.
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Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients.
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My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are my essentials.
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You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef.
In Tokyo, we have more three-star Michelin restaurants than Paris.
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People eat the chicken, people eat the beef, they still say, 'Don't kill the fish.'