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It’s a Lifelong Pursuit
Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom . . . is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.
—ANTHONY BOURDAIN
The greatest sushi chef in the world was born in Tenryu, Japan, on October 27, 1925. At the age of just seven years old, Jiro Ono began working in a restaurant. He became a qualified sushi chef in 1951 and opened his own restaurant in 1965. His restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro, has earned the Michelin Guide’s top three-star status every year from 2007 to 2019,1 despite being in a subway station in the basement of an office building in Tokyo and having a seating capacity of just 10 people. If you’d ...
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