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" I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French. "
David Chang
Old
Cooking
Old School
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" To me, there are two types of celebrity: there's good celebrity - people that are attracted to the food and working and trying to create something great - and then there's bad celebrity - those who are working on being a celebrity. "
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" Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for. "
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Me
You
" To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You can get a Michelin star if you serve the best hamburger in the world. "
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" Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good. "
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Past
Good
" Yes, natural is good and healthy, and whole foods are important. However, experimentation is important, too. "
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" When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference. "
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You
Family
" I learned so much more prepping vegetables than I ever did in cooking school. "
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More
Cooking
" I'm a big sports fan. "
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Sports
" New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose. "
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Us
New
" I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure myself. "
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Work
Now
" I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away. "
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Street
Stand
You
" Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. "
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Gardening
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" The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. "
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Word
Restaurant
Out
" When I was in Japan, everyone wanted to work for Pierre Gagnaire, and they wouldn't miss a beat. "
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Work
Miss
" If people ask me, 'What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,' I'd say there's nothing to improve on. "
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Think
You
People
" I want to make simple food new. "
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Make
Want
Simple
" People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation. "
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People
American
Food
" I think the basic thing that home cooks can learn how to do is just season properly... If the home cook realized how little salt they use compared to what's needed, it would make their food taste better. "
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Salt
Learn
Food
" If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is. "
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Say
You
People
" Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything. "
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Hide
Colleagues
Deep
" I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team once I got there. I had a big dose of humble pie then, and ever since, I've always known that there is always someone out there better than you, more talented. Always. "
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Team
Golf
Great
" I love to eat sushi, and, you know, those flavors and wasabi and really eating spoonfuls of it... I would just mix it and put it on everything, literally. "
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You
Eating
Know
" In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York. "
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Run
Always
Buildings
" If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it. "
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Bad
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" I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways. "
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" People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan. "
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Bread
You
" I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease. "
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Something
" Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types. "
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Different
Most
" I've never bribed my way into a restaurant. I've never slipped a C-note or greased a palm. In truth, I've never even considered it. I've assumed, of course, that people do such things. "
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Truth
Restaurant
Never