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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Swimming keeps me fit and flexible, and it helps that I have a large pool at my house in Beverly Hills.
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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.'
When I'm in L.A., I go to Spago because the chef is a friend of mine.
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When I'm home in L.A., I go to La Brea, a bakery which does artisan breads, excellent sourdoughs primarily, but also patisserie and cakes.
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When I was 11 or 12 - a young boy in Japan - one of my older brothers took me to a sushi restaurant. I had never been to one, and it was very memorable. Back then, sushi was expensive and hard to come by, not like today, when there's a sushi restaurant on every street corner and you can buy it in supermarkets.
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Whenever possible, buy a fish whole. With tuna, this isn't practical; with smaller fish, it is.
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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.