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Eric Ripert quotes

Ocupation: Chef

Life: b. March 2, 1965

Birthday: March 2

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The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

Topics: Dream, Reading, Importance, Beautiful Picture, Importance Of Reading

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When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I'd flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day.

Topics: Dream, Book, Library

A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.

Topics: Thinking, People, Guilt, Guilty Pleasure, Eating Habits

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

Topics: America, Comfort, Melting, Comfort Food, Roast Chicken

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.

Topics: Beautiful, Dream, Reading

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

Topics: Restaurants, Menus

My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day!

Topics: New Year, Cutting, Two, Diet Soda

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

source: - "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

Topics: Sides, My Family, Farmers

Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.

source: - "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

Topics: California, Vegetables, Fantastic

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

Topics: Moving, Ideas, Cooking

Cooking is a holistic process of planning, preparing, dining and sharing food. I place food at the center of our humanity, as it nourishes not only our physical bodies but also our emotional and spiritual lives. Food is truly a cultural phenomenon that informs our traditions and our relationship with the earth. I genuinely believe that food connects us all.

Topics: Spiritual, Believe, Emotional, Holistic, Sharing Food

I love garlic, and I use it often.

Topics: Use, Garlic

Fast food is both evil and genius. Because of it we can feed a large number of people fairly decently at an affordable price. However, all the artificial flavors and artificial ingredients in some of their products are unacceptable. And it's designed so you can eat fast so you get back to work more quickly. Not good.

Topics: Numbers, People, Evil

When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.

Topics: Retirement, Kids, Responsibility

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

Topics: Memories, Feelings, Emotion

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

source: - "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

Topics: Way, Helping, Rich

You don't become a chef to become famous.

Topics: Chef

The fish is the star of the plate.

source: - "'It's Not Me, It's the Oven'". Interview with Eve Gleichman, www.esquire.com. August 12, 2010.

Topics: Stars, Plates, Fishes

California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

Topics: Winter, Florida, Weather, Good Weather, Seafood

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

Topics: Buddhist, Should, Collecting

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

Topics: Cooking, Mind, Changing Your Mind

When you serve lobster, you've taken a being's life away. Therefore if you create a recipe, you have to be very dedicated to elevate the lobster, to make it good and tasty of course, but at the end of the day it's a matter of paying homage.

Topics: Taken, The End Of The Day, Lobster

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

source: - Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Topics: Passion, Cooking, Students

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

source: - Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Topics: Sound, Music Is, Nightclubs, Sound Systems

I don't follow the food trends.

Topics: Trends

When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.

source: - Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Topics: Passion, Paris, Dining, Fine Dining

We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time, after the war. My mother had many Vietnamese friends who entertained a lot, and she was taught how to make that spring roll. She would make them all the time.

source: - Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Topics: Mother, Spring, War, Vietnamese Refugees

Just walking in the kitchen (and we have three kitchens at Le Bernardin), I exercise quite a lot. I also walk in Central Park for 50 minutes from my house to Le Bernardin every day, rain, shine, snow.

source: - Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Topics: Rain, Exercise, Central Park

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

source: - Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Topics: Sound Systems, Techno

My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I would eat one full apple tart.

source: - Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Topics: Different Styles

I love eggs. When it's the season of truffles, scrambled eggs with truffles, and I'm happy. I'm smiling like that.

source: - Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Topics: Truffles, Scrambled Eggs

At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today.

source: - Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Topics: Culinary School

It was my first day working at Tour d'Argent, a famous restaurant in Paris, in 1982, and they were celebrating their 400th anniversary. I am in the fish station and after many mistakes, including cutting myself after 30 seconds in that kitchen, the chef said, "Make a Hollandaise sauce with 32 yolks." It takes me forever to separate the yolks from the whites, and I put them in a bowl and try to go close to the stove, but the stove is way too hot for me.

source: - Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Topics: Cutting Myself

I have very vivid memories of being a young child. My mother would create dinner as for us, and when she would bake, she would leave some dough for me. I would roll the dough into little sticks while she was cooking the apple tart of whatever. I was looking through the window of the oven and flipping the light, and then my bread would come out, and it was inedible, of course.

source: - Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

Topics: Vivid Memories

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