Eat a peach

Chef David Chang discusses his childhood as the youngest son of a deeply religious Korean American family in Virginia, how he fled to Japan in the hopes of finding some sense of belonging, his struggles with mental health and feelings of inadequacy, and his start in the kitchen. He also details how he started Momofuku Noodle Bar and subsequent restaurants, his many mistakes, his extraordinary luck, and the restaurant industry's history of brutishness and sexism.