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Jean-Georges

According to New York magazine, there is no chef who has exerted more influence on New York City restaurants than Jean-Georges Vongerichten. He first arrived in Manhattan's Chinatown in 1986, and before that he opened ten restaurants around the world from 1980 to 1985. Jean-Georges was born and raised in Alsace, France, and it was there that he spent much of his youth helping his mother and grandmother in the kitchen. It was only when his parents brought him to a restaurant for his sixteenth birthday that he realized he could make a life out of food. He tells Deepak how his father asked the waiters if they had any work for his "good for nothing son," and the following week he set out on his now legendary career.

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