The Principles Of Japanese Cuisine With Morimoto

Pluff Mudder · 10-07-2009, 01:04 PM

New York Culinary Experience: The Principles of Japanese Cuisine with Morimoto

Posted by Chichi Wang, October 7, 2009 at 11:15 AM

[Photographs: Chichi Wang]

Sunday afternoon at the New York Culinary Experience passed in a flurry of fish. Masaharu Morimoto may have attended his sushi class with his arm in a cast, but he was flanked by his trusted crew from his eponymous restaurant in New York—namely, his chef de cuisine Jamison Blankenship and his head sushi chef Robby Cook. Aided by two stern-looking, soft-spoken Japanese chefs and FCI chef/instructor Mark Twersky, team Morimoto led the class through an intensive tutorial on the fundamentals of sushi preparation.

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Wonder how Morimoto broke his arm?

Food Network Fan · 10-07-2009, 01:08 PM

Maybe he's been trying to fill in for the Chairman while he's dancing and didn't quite make the back flip.

Pluff Mudder · 10-07-2009, 01:08 PM

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Chef Masaharu Morimoto also treated the crowd to his vocal prowess, singing in Japanese before he kicked off his sushi-making class. Turns out the chef is not made of iron, after all, however – a sling was cradling his injured arm. When pressed on what happened, he responded (jokingly, we hope), “I visited the zoo and got in the cage with the lions. I fought with the lions, and they broke my arm.” The chef also confirmed the opening of his Napa Valley restaurant, set in the new Riverfront development, for summer ’10.

I hope he was joking.

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Food Network Fan · 10-07-2009, 01:27 PM

Must be something he doesn't want to tell.

Maybe its like that woman in the commercial with hard water stains.