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Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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Jean-Georges Vongerichten writes On the House . They have also been a guest on The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters , Food with Mark Bittman and The Go To Food Podcast .

Recently: “Jean-Georges Vongerichten - Trump's Wedding, Marco Pierre White's Meltdown & Losing His Third Michelin Star” on The Go To Food Podcast (October 2026); “Jean-Georges Vongerichten on Watching New York Change” on Food with Mark Bittman (August 2026); “CULTURED CLUB” on On the House (March 2026); “Horror Stories” on The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters (July 2001).

What They Said

“I'm a late bloomer… I opened my first restaurant at 34. Today I would start from scratch between AI and Google. I'm a chef in two years.” — Jean-Georges Vongerichten, The Go To Food Podcast

Vongerichten says ingredients and information are far easier to get than when he started. Then he had to go to the library for cookbooks and travel the world to learn; now you can look up tamarind, find where it grows, have it shipped, and get thousands of recipes for it.

The Go To Food Podcast · 2026-10-15 Permalink → Listen →
The Go To Food Podcast Around 34:17 into the episode
Jean-Georges Vongerichten

But I think ingredients are better today. So I feel cooking. I mean, at my time, I had to go to the library to look at cookbooks. I had to travel the world to learn something new. Today you click tamarind. Not only if you have, you know, where it grows, where to find it, they ship it to you.

Freddy Clode

Yeah.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Only have a 50,000 recipe for it. So it took me, I'm a late bloomer. It took me 16. I opened my first restaurant at 34. Today I would start from scratch between AI and Google. I'm a chef in two years. Yeah, yeah,

Freddy Clode

you're away. Social media as well.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

So I think the youth today is all lucky. I mean, it's amazing. Yeah,

Freddy Clode

the information. Available information. How many

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