Jacqueline Obradors Quotes

I'm a vegetarian, but my family isn't. If I can keep everything in my house healthy, I don't have to worry as much when I eat out.

I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.

Sushi is my favorite thing to do in L.A.

I love sashimi, mainly tuna sashimi. I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini seaweed sheets.

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.

I could probably eat sushi every day.

In Japanese, sushi does not mean raw fish. It means seasoned rice.

The iPhone is like 'omakase', the style of sushi where the chef chooses what you're going to eat, and might even tell you how to eat it - no wasabi allowed on this, no soy sauce allowed on that. Definitely no California rolls.

Unless people die from it, a little diarrhea isn't going to stop us from having our live fish.

And, you know, I don’t want to have to worry that she is going to get sick as the consequence of having, having her lunch.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here.

Some people eat the tuna, some people roll it up into a ball. Also, the sort of disgusting texture and smell, I think, adds something to the experience.

I just eat very simply. I check everything and try to eat a lot of rice and chicken. I just want to be safe and very careful.

I wouldn't be boxing if I wasn't given the all-clear by the doctors, I wouldn't put my family or myself through that.

I'm a big sushi fan.

What I do gorge on is sushi. This is the only dish I don't mind overindulging in.

I am deeply sorry that people got sick from eating at our restaurants. It's the worst thing that can happen.

Steer clear of anything fried.

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

They say hot dogs can kill you. How do you know it's not the bun?

Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.

I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.