Perhaps it’s because someone who is 500 pounds just compared Bouley’s famous potato purée to Paula Deen’s refrigerator, but in an interview with Forbes, David Bouley sounds like he’s busting at the seams to get to Japan. “I would be in the mountains of Kyoto, leaving a hot spring on the way to eat at Kahala restaurant in Osaka,” he fantasizes, meticulously, to a reporter. Brushstroke doesn’t do it for you, DB? [Forbes]