David Chang Quotes

• Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

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  Cooking, Care, Eating

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• We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

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  Land, Want, Succeed

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• Lifes too short to just breeze on by.

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  Life Too Short, Too Short, Breeze

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• Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

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  Men, Lazy Man, Trying

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• To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You can get a Michelin star if you serve the best hamburger in the world.

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  Stars, Dining, World

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• Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

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  Reading, Math, Discipline

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• I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.

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  Thinking, Justified, Fraud

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• Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, theyre not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.

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  Teaching, Giving, Foundation

  "David Chang On American Cuisine, Vanishing Seafood, Cooking At Home & Seasoning Properly". Interview with Colin Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

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• Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types.

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  Thinking, Different, Ramen

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• I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.

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  Spring, Vegetables, Mushrooms

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• 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.

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  Country, Thinking, Two

  "In Conversation: Andre Soltner and David Chang". Interview with Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.

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• I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

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  Quality, Grasping, Scales

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• The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all.

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  Competition, Events, Week

  "In Conversation: André Soltner and David Chang". Interview with Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.

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• You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional and home cooks alike.

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  Home, Office, Kitchen

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• I love chicken. I love chicken products: fried chicken, roasted chicken, chicken nuggets - whatever. And going to Japan, I would see that these chicken were smoked and then grilled and then have this amazing crispy skin.

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  Japan, Skins, Nuggets

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Food Culture, Japan

  "David Chang's Pork Buns: An Unexpected Hit". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. November 3, 2009.

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