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We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things. Nadia Giosia

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards. Nadia Giosia

Parents Nights Spent Eat Days Like Stinking Italy Boat Things

You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now. Nadia Giosia

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in. Nadia Giosia

You Entertainment Try Television Lifestyle Particularly Box Often Really

I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too. Nadia Giosia

Life Food Family Cake My Life Too Way Out Tried Eat Obsessed Comedian Make Always Italian Italian Family Up Person Front Grew Center Figure Who Fun

I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes. Nadia Giosia

Love Good Quality Will Extra Virgin Olive Oil Kick Bit Syrup Bitter Good Quality Cheap Always End Up Wonderfully Oil Dishes Your Works Maple Olive Olive Oil

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. Nobu Matsuhisa

Life You Rest My Life Else Eat Potatoes More Only Both Could Instead Like Go Noodles Lot Than Bread Anything Anything Else Rice Them If I Could Choose Even Carbohydrate

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual. Nobu Matsuhisa

Out Dining Tend Casual Feel Like Venues Privately Avoid Things

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. Nobu Matsuhisa

Art You Fine Fine Art Something Learn Sushi Preparing Watch

I was a bit of a wild boy - always swimming and exploring the mountains. Nobu Matsuhisa

Mountains Swimming Wild Bit Boy Always Exploring

A sushi chef has to spot the best-quality fresh fish instantly. Nobu Matsuhisa

Instantly Chef Spot Fresh Fish Sushi

Whenever possible, buy a fish whole. With tuna, this isn't practical; with smaller fish, it is. Nobu Matsuhisa

Buy Possible Smaller Practical Fish Whenever Tuna Whole

I'm not perfect. I am not Iron Man. Nobu Matsuhisa

Man Not Perfect Perfect Am Iron Iron Man

My favorite knife is from Miyakoya in Japan - I have one in each of my restaurants. Nobu Matsuhisa

Favorite Restaurants Knife Japan Each

I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep it very basic. Try your best. But without passion, you will not have success. Nobu Matsuhisa

Success Best You People Passion Try Will Whatever Enjoy Musician All People Without Very Whether Your Who Keep Basic

Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history. Nobu Matsuhisa

History Years Peru

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!' Nobu Matsuhisa

Me Patience Passion Walks Says Member Dream Restaurant Relish Towards Most Up Done Owning Staff Achieving Worked Who

Every year, I do a New Year's day party at my home. I invite my staff and my friends and their kids. Around 40-50 people come by, and I do a barbecue and salads, steak and sushi, and also lots of cheese. Nobu Matsuhisa

Every morning when I woke up, my mother was already in the kitchen making breakfast. It was always the same: steamed rice, pickled vegetables, grilled fish and miso soup. Each day there was something different in the soup such as tofu or potatoes. Nobu Matsuhisa

Once I fell out of a tree and was hit by a motorbike. I still have the scar on my head now. Nobu Matsuhisa

Tree Once Out Scar Head Fell Still Motorbike Hit Now

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. Nobu Matsuhisa

Today Buy Me You Young Older Every Corner Took Back Memorable Restaurant Brothers Never Had Come Like Boy Been Very Sushi Expensive Japan Then Hard Older Brothers Street Street Corner

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