#w

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

#cooking #difficult #food #i #japanese

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

#because #calories #chef #cholesterol #consume

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

#cheese #culture #food #french #genius

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cannot #dangerous #examined #light #mortal

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#almost #artist #day #every #every day

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#equal #even #evident #half #hour

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#me #rich #smile #wise

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#life #life is a #progress #want

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#law #little #much #nature #power

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#eat #him #intercourse #life #lived