TV's Iron Chef, Masaharu Morimoto was a former baseball player and he has hit it out of the park in his first foray into the world of cookbooks.
Iron Chef Morimoto has a fearsome gaze and when invited to meet him in person as he embarked on his first book tour, I was all sweaty palms. He greeted me with little emotion and as I set my two recording devices out and joked that I do not trust technology, he laughed and agreed with me. Whew! After that, we proceeded to talk about his first cookbook (Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking), his difficult childhood and his love of sushi (a love the is deeper than one could ever envision). Morimoto was expansive, jolly and warm, opposite of my first image -- no wonder his food speaks of surprising flavours!
