Jean-Georges Vongerichten Quotes

I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.

I grew up watching my mom cook.

This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.

I grew up eating chicken and dumplings in my grandma's kitchen.

Well, you know, my wife and I have eight children. We have now 19 grandchildren.

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant.

I show the people I love that I love them by gathering them in my kitchen and feeding them, so no surprise that most of my characters do the same thing.

The kitchen is a sacred space.

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.

You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking.

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

I was raised cooking my grandmother's food, my mom's recipes.

I'm from South Georgia, so my mom, she always cooked some dang good food when I was growing up.

My mother makes marvelous meals.

I spent a lot of time with extended family when I was young. Every weekend, Dad would buy half a sheep and Mum would cook for about 50 people, and we would all eat on the couch, in the kitchen, spilling out into the garden.

I have a very big, very beautiful family.

When I was growing up, my grandmother cooked every day. She is the best chef ever.

My family big as hell, man.

I have 40 cousins.

I've got my huge Greek family. I mean, I don't know how many cousins I have - I can't even keep track. There are just so many of us, and we love all Greek food - we have Greek night every Sunday night.

I cook stuff that I picked up from my husband's mother. I thought that would be a good way to his heart, you know. I love to cook Italian and French, also.

The kitchen was the center of our household. I spent all of my time there growing up.