A Quote by Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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Jean-Georges Vongerichten
French - Chef
Born: March 16, 1957

My life has changed because somebody fed my family on Thanksgiving when I was eleven years old. It wasn't the food that changed me, it was the fact that a stranger cared. That's what changed my life. That made me the person I am today and have been for the last 37 years. All that came out of that, that simple act of getting a result.

Tony Robbins

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.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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