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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My business partner Robert De Niro knows a lot about hotels; he opened the Greenwich Hotel in New York City.
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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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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.
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.'
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When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.
I want to always keep going. I don't want to ever stop.
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I like both potatoes and rice. You can do a lot with both of them. But if I could eat only one carbohydrate for the rest of my life, I wouldn't choose bread, potatoes or even noodles. I'd go for rice instead; I eat more of that than anything else.
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Cooking is like fashion. Always, I like to try to change. If I'm traveling in a different country - to Australia, the Bahamas, Budapest, Moscow - and I see a new ingredient, I like to try it in a new dish.