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 used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.
buy fish smaller whenever
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.
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.
kids players sushi
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.
people
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.
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My business partner Robert De Niro knows a lot about hotels; he opened the Greenwich Hotel in New York City.
I want to always keep going. I don't want to ever stop.