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There is so much more vegetable use in Thailand, India and China than meat. Yes, when you go to the markets or buy street food, you see shrimp or chicken - but mostly vegetables.

I love cooking, but I love the business, too. It's important because a lot of chefs forget the business side and have to shut down after six months.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

A chef and a restaurateur are different jobs: One is about pleasing people with what's on the plate; the other is about understanding the market. I'm a chef, but I think I'm a savvy businessperson, too.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

There is so much more vegetable use in Thailand, India and China than meat. Yes, when you go to the markets or buy street food, you see shrimp or chicken - but mostly vegetables.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I arrived in New York in 1986, when I was 28. The market here was nothing. In the Union Square farmers' market, it was a couple of potatoes, everything from California. So the only place I was comfortable shopping was in Chinatown, because it all came from Hong Kong.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That's cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I drink a lot of juice and eat a lot of vegetables.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

You've got to be in your kitchens, or it all falls apart.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

At lunchtime, our kitchen was like a mini restaurant: my grandmother and mother had to cook for as many as 25 people - extended family plus 10 employees. We ate a lot of cabbage and a lot of potatoes.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

My mother worked in a chocolate factory, so when I came home from school, I had a piece of baguette with dark chocolate in it. I remember her smelling like chocolate.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

At ABC Cocina and Kitchen, 90 percent of our produce and vegetables come from Union Square, and that's all from upstate New York farmers. We are simply committed to this idea of local, organic food.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

You don't do a business for pleasure: You have to make money.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

In the morning, we sliced all the vegetables and layered everything up in a pot with a glass of Riesling. On the way to church, we dropped it off with the baker, who sealed the lid with a strip of dough and put it in his oven for a couple of hours. We picked it up at 12 o'clock and took it home to eat with mustard and salad.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

For me, the good food starts with good product.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

My kitchen in New York City is in the Richard Meier building on Perry Street, so it's ultra-modern: white, glass and transparent. It's 180 square feet, with an induction stove. Everything's hidden, so you don't see the microwave or the fridge.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I have 20 restaurants. And if one doesn't work, it doesn't work.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I want every dish to be a ten.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

My presence in California will bring a new, inspiring culinary environment to life, and I'm delighted to share my creative techniques and evolving fresh ideas with the Beverly Hills community.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten