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People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation. David Chang

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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. David Chang

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I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves. David Chang

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Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy. David Chang

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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

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I appreciate people who are happy. David Chang

Happy People Who Appreciate

'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

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When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now. David Chang

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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. David Chang

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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

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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

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

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My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do. Duff Goldman

I kind of feel like I've been eating professionally for a long time. I've tasted everything. If there's a sausage, you know what? I know exactly what it tastes like. I love them all. But right now it's more important for me to not have all that grease and fat in my body. Duff Goldman

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When I got a deposit on my very first cake, I took that deposit and I bought some cake mix with it. I've never taken a loan - ever. And we're doing this expansion just like everything we've done in this bakery as we've grown. If we weren't able to afford paying for something cash, we didn't buy it. Duff Goldman

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