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David Chang
American
Chef
Born:
Aug 5
,
1977
Cooking
Food
Me
People
Think
You
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Don't even get me started. I'm not against all vegetarians. But if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm.
David Chang
Me
You
More
Vegetarian
Causing
Get
May
Against
Ethical
Reasons
Even
Started
Harm
If you're going to be a vegetarian, limit yourself to food from a place you can go to in two hours and just eat that.
David Chang
Food
You
Yourself
Eat
Vegetarian
Hours
Limit
Go
Going
Just
Place
Two
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.
David Chang
Family
You
Treat
Animals
Big
Meet
See
Like
Makes
Big Difference
Go
Difference
Farmers
Farms
I love the intensity of the fine-dining kitchen, but loathe the fine-dining experience.
David Chang
Love
Experience
Loathe
Kitchen
Intensity
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.
David Chang
Communicate
Lost
Bad
Would
Temper
Able
Fired
Clearly
Get
Manager
Them
Realize
Then
Really
Should
Cook
Now
Right
I hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good?
David Chang
Good
Hate
People
Assume
Corporation
Say
Defy
Restaurant
Concept
Sort
How
Where
Chain
Each
Now
I appreciate people who are happy.
David Chang
Happy
People
Who
Appreciate
Yes, natural is good and healthy, and whole foods are important. However, experimentation is important, too.
David Chang
Good
Natural
Important
Healthy
Too
Foods
However
Yes
Experimentation
Whole
Whole Foods
'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food.
David Chang
Food
Me
Amazing
Think
Absolutely
Movie
Fantastic
Meaning
Meaning Of
Captures
When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.
David Chang
Home
First
Would
Rarely
Elaborate
Meals
Cook
Now
Started
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.
David Chang
World
Gives
Colour
Pick
Pick And Choose
New
Around
Cuisines
York
New York
Us
Cook
Choose
Lets
Wide
Palette
Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good.
David Chang
Good
Will
Past
Something
Because
Continue
Been
Just
Just Because
In The Past
Mean
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.
David Chang
Truth
People
Assumed
Considered
Way
Restaurant
Never
Course
Bribed
Such Things
Even
Things
Palm
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.
David Chang
Good
You
Business
Wish
Difficult
Incredibly
Several
Be Careful
One-Night
Maintaining
Over
Years
Getting
Being
Anyone
Successful
Hard
Night
Careful
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.
David Chang
Business
Better
School
Think
Would
Restaurant
Restaurant Business
Following
About
Had
Know
Him
Chef
Been
Done
Really
Dad
Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful.
David Chang
Beautiful
You
Become
Ownership
Sense
Changes
Everything
Say
Give
Taking
Taking Things For Granted
Child
Going
Stop
Granted
Less
Her
Wasteful
Things
Raises
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.
David Chang
Food
You
Culture
People
Think
See
Throughout
Taiwan
Part
Go
Northern
Quite
Bread
China
Japan
Asian
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