Top 59 Quotes by Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I landed in 1980 in Bangkok, and I stopped to eat ten times between the airport and the hotel. It was all lemongrass and ginger and chilies.

At home, I never plate. Things go in the middle of the table, and you serve yourself. In the restaurant, every day I plate things, but at home, I want to enjoy my company.

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

For people in London, Asian flavors are always part of the culture, more than in New York.

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

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

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.

Pound Ridge is about five miles from our country house. When you go every weekend for the last ten years without fail, well, that starts to feel like a home.

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