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" I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus. "
David Chang
Look
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Spring
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" Running a business anywhere isn't easy. "
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" One of the benefits to ordering food in New York is that you can get food 24/7. "
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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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" Life's too short to just breeze on by. "
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" I'm a big sports fan. "
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" I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified. "
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" The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook. "
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" 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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" Shouldn't a three-course meal be 90 minutes? Do you know how hard you have to edit your menu to pull that off? Twenty-seven minutes. That's the average meal at Jiro's in Tokyo. "
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" I love chicken. I love chicken products: fried chicken, roasted chicken, chicken nuggets - whatever. And going to Japan, I would see that these chicken were smoked and then grilled and then have this amazing crispy skin. "
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" Chef Thomas Keller was an inspiration to me and many, many young cooks like me. He told us that the role of the new, modern chef is different. "
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" Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult. "
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" I learned so much more prepping vegetables than I ever did in cooking school. "
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Cooking
" My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done better at school, I don't know if I would have been a chef. "
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" I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino. "
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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
" 'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food. "
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Meaning
Amazing
" Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good. "
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" I don't like eating in restaurants. "
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Eating
Like
" Any processed chicken from any place - I'll order it in a heartbeat. I'm very picky about my pork, though. "
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Though
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" I want to make simple food new. "
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Want
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" 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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" There's the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It's not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it's like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker. "
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World
You
True
" I was terrible at desk jobs. "
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Jobs
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" America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better. "
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" I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease. "
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" The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. "
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" 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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" For everyday diners in Manhattan, cracking the waiting list at Nobu is said to be harder than getting courtside tickets for the Knicks. "
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