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" If I am at home in L.A. on a Saturday or Sunday, I like to start the day with a hot bath and then do an hour of stretching. "

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" When I'm in L.A., I go to Spago because the chef is a friend of mine. "

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" When I'm home in L.A., I go to La Brea, a bakery which does artisan breads, excellent sourdoughs primarily, but also patisserie and cakes. "

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

" I like to keep healthy physically and mentally, too. "

" 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. "

" Many chefs are either technically or artistically better than me, but I know my food has soul. "

" In Tokyo, we have more three-star Michelin restaurants than Paris. "

" Eating a lot on the plane is not good for jet lag. "

" A different spice is the most interesting thing to me. "

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" It's not unusual for me to wake up in the middle of the night and not know where I am. I take sleep medication to deal with all the flights. But I find it helps to eat at the same time every day. "

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

" Large fish such as tuna are shown already cut into fillets and bought by the block. Fillets should be almost transparent. Avoid tuna that looks rainbow-colored or black. "

" In the morning and the end of every day, I thank that I'm alive. "

" In Japan, I have my own line of dinnerware, but I'm not aggressive about pursuing those projects. "

" I'm not perfect. I am not Iron Man. "

" I have a restaurant in Milan, and Paper Moon is five minutes away from my hotel, so I always go there for lunch. It's a casual place that serves good salad, pizza and pasta; the space is tight with tables close together, and it feels buzzy. Food comes out fast, too. "

" I travel all over the world, usually 10 months out of the year. I stay at a lot of hotels, and the ones I like best are clean and not complicated. You go to bed and say, 'Wow, I feel comfortable.' "

" Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. "

" One day, the people who work in my kitchen stir-fried chopped Napa cabbage to serve with some meat or fish for their own dinner. I got to thinking: 'What if the cabbage was the most important thing on the plate?' "

" I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Dashi remains unfamiliar to most French and American cooks, who tend to reach for a bouillon cube to do many of the same things. But dashi is worth preparing and using the way the Japanese do: for poaching fish, as a soup base, and in simmered dishes. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel like I owe something to America, as it is where I found success. "

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