of course there's a blog for it
https://brothofvigour.wordpress.com/tag/broth-of-vigor/
"The first Iron Chef Japanese, Rokusaburo Michiba, had a trademark Dashi which was labelled “the broth of vigour”. He prepared this at the beginning of almost every battle, bringing water to the boil with Konbu in it then putting an absolute bucketload of katsuobushi (bonito flakes) into the pot."
also from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokusaburo_Michiba#Retirement
So supportive of Morimoto was Michiba that, before his infamous New York battle with chef Bobby Flay, Michiba gave Morimoto a large box of katsuobushi flakes with a hand-calligraphed message: "respect the old, but seek out the new."
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american versions of anything always dial up the drama and dial down the information
and yes, the cyborg known as bobby flay is unsettling to look at
the saga between Masaharu Morimoto and the traditionalist chef faction that was despised his internationalism with Japanese cuisine was so epic
Michiba's 'broth of vigor' was common go-to that I've always wanted to try - broth of bonito flakes
plz elaborate
'Ohta Faction' was the traditionalists group that took on Morimoto multiple times.
this wiki page gives some info about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiro_Kandagawa#Iron_Chef
this battle was one of the traditionalists wins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRxf3eMhrn4
this one also features the Ohta Faction coming for Morimoto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucwrsFkW8SA
of course there's a blog for it https://brothofvigour.wordpress.com/tag/broth-of-vigor/
"The first Iron Chef Japanese, Rokusaburo Michiba, had a trademark Dashi which was labelled “the broth of vigour”. He prepared this at the beginning of almost every battle, bringing water to the boil with Konbu in it then putting an absolute bucketload of katsuobushi (bonito flakes) into the pot."
also from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokusaburo_Michiba#Retirement
So supportive of Morimoto was Michiba that, before his infamous New York battle with chef Bobby Flay, Michiba gave Morimoto a large box of katsuobushi flakes with a hand-calligraphed message: "respect the old, but seek out the new."