David Chang Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.”

“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.”

“I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”