Jean Georges Menu Quotes & Sayings

Every time I go to the market, Andy says, 'Don't forget the Triscuits!' — Kate Spade

Our clients wanted the restaurant experience, not their mother's buffet dinner - so we reached out to that world and hired a series of restaurant chefs: Robb Garceau from Jean Georges, Cornelius Gallagher from Oceana. Cornelius completely revolutionized our menu; he did a stint at El Bulli, and one of the techniques he brought back was sous-vide cooking. Our current chef, Patrick Phelan, continues to grow the vision. — David Castle

I sometimes think that it's not our enemies that we resent in life, but rather friends we have who stood quietly by and did nothing. — Craig Johnson

You certainly don't fuck about trying to ride manta rays. — Douglas Adams

When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth; and that without labour, because he receiveth the light of understanding from above. The spirit which is pure, sincere, and steadfast, is not distracted though it hath many works to do, because it doth all things to the honour of God, and striveth to be free from all thoughts of self-seeking. — Thomas A Kempis

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred. — Albert Schweitzer

The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups. — James Morcan

Oversimplified moral certainties - always requiring hostility, always potentially violent - isolate us from mercy, pity, peace, and love and leave us lonely and dangerous. — Wendell Berry

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek. — MC Hammer

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law. — Gautama Buddha

I love creating new things. It's difficult to be creative once a restaurant's open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in opening a new place and starting a new menu. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

But all is forgotten and I have done nothing, unless what I am doing now is something, and nothing could give me greater satisfaction. — Samuel Beckett

Always put your comfortable position on the horizon. Constantly seek to achieve it but also realize you can never reach there. — Shivam