Masaharu Quotes & Sayings

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way. — Masaharu Morimoto

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. — Herbert Hoover

I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done. — Randy Johnson

I don't eat anything on an airplane. — Masaharu Morimoto

When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot. — Masaharu Morimoto

Times of sadness are the very moment to laugh and laugh greatly. — Masaharu Taniguchi

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant. — Masaharu Morimoto

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher! — Masaharu Morimoto

On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims. — Masaharu Morimoto

Because I'm a chef, I eat out frequently, so it's hard for me to control what I consume in terms of calories. But when I'm at home, I eat what my wife cooks for me. She works hard to avoid making foods that are high in calories and cholesterol, so most of the time, she makes vegetarian dishes. — Masaharu Morimoto

They lived in them all or they died and every man with them; they had come to believe that to abandon one man was to abandon themselves. — Richard Flanagan

All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon; and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond. — Masaharu Anesaki

I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home. — Masaharu Morimoto

We live and learn, and in between
we do the best we can. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. — Unknown

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook. — Masaharu Morimoto

A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen. — Masaharu Morimoto

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion — Thomas Hobbes

I always have dashi in my refrigerator - it's the almighty Japanese ingredient. — Masaharu Morimoto

I want to expand my cuisine to this country. I love America. I have been here 22 years. — Masaharu Morimoto

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is. — Masaharu Morimoto

A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable. — Masaharu Morimoto

The way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result (good or bad) to what you have been committed to. — John Phillips

Ramen is a dish that's very high in calories and sodium. One way to make it slightly healthier is to leave the soup and just eat the noodles. — Masaharu Morimoto

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist. — Masaharu Morimoto

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen. — Masaharu Morimoto

I've been making sushi for 38 years, and I'm still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish. — Masaharu Morimoto

Living is a horizontal fall. — Jean Cocteau

The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose. — Tony Hsieh

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. — Masaharu Morimoto

Cook more often. Don't study; just cook. — Masaharu Morimoto

New York is my, you know, second hometown. — Masaharu Morimoto

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy. — Masaharu Morimoto

When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people - just talking bad. — Ric Flair