Japanese Food Quotes

• If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cities, Mind, Cuisine

  "Arcane, Urbane & Insane Bourdain!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

  Phil Collins

  Travel, Journey, Goes On

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• Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

  David Mitchell

  Feels

  "What's in your basket?". Interview with Olivia Gordon, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2007.

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• 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

  Thinking, Knives, Long

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• I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.

  David Chang

  Country, Thinking, Two

  "In Conversation: Andre Soltner and David Chang". Interview with Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.

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• Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Japan, Average

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

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• I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Frustration, Ignorant, Culture

  "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Morning, Simple, Night

  "What's in your basket?". Interview with John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2008.

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• I dont have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Lunch, Focus, Breakfast

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• 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

  School, Years, Smell

  "TalkAsia" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2012.

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• I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.

  Isla Fisher

  Nice, London, Good Food

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's just starting. I think it's going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody loves Chinese food, Thai food, Japanese food, and it's all been exploited. The Filipinos combined the best of all of that with Spanish technique. The Spanish were a colonial power there for 500 years, and they left behind adobo and cooking in vinegar - techniques that, applied to those tropical Asian ingredients, are miraculous.

  Andrew Zimmern

  Thinking, Years, Cooking

  "Andrew Zimmern: Filipino food is the 'next big thing'". Interview with Veronica Meewes, www.today.com. June 12, 2012.

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