Jean-Georges Vongerichten won the 1998 James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef and Best New Restaurant. His Manhattan restaurants include Vong, JoJo, the Mercer Kitchen, and Jean Georges, which earned a rare four-star rating from The New York Times. He is coauthor of the James Beard Award-winning Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef (Broadway Books, 1998).
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