Chef's Table: Niki Nakayama

"Kaiseki, the integrity of the ingredients should never be lost. The process of growing struggling and surviving. There's a whole new level of appreciation, everything takes times, everything takes the right amount of nurturing, everything deserves effort because it's making an effort. To toss it aside or waste it or to take it so lightly, we are not doing our best to appreciate what nature is truly offering, what the lessons of life are all around us are trying to teach us."