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For my 16th birthday, my family took me to L'Auberge de L'Ill, which was family-run but had three Michelin stars. It was a revelation. After that meal, I realised this is what I want to do.
— Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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Jean-Georges Vongerichten
chef
1957
Jean-Georges Vongerichten is a French-American chef. Vongerichten owns restaurants in Miami Beach, Las Vegas, London, Paris, Shanghai, Philadelphia, and Tokyo, as well as New York's Jean-Georges restaurant and Tangará Jean Georges in São Paulo's Palácio Tangará, by Oetker Collection. He is head chef of Eden Rock, St Barths. Vongerichten is the author of five cookbooks, two with Mark Bittman.
All Quotes by Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.
— Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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I think, as a chef and restaurateur, that you have to take care of your business. Otherwise, you're only as good as your last meal. You have to watch if your food costs are too high, or you could be out of business in no time.
— Jean-Georges Vongerichten