Eric Ripert Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Eric Ripert:
I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.
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A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.
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Chefs are leaders in their own little world.
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I'm a very bad baker.
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I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.
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For me, I do not wish to build an empire.
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I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.
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I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere.
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America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.
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When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.
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If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.
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It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense.
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When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries himself.
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I am totally anti-technology.
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As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.
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I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.
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I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too.
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I'm very inspired by other cultures and very often use what I perceive to be exotic ingredients.
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I don't follow the food trends.
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I never pressure myself to do something I don't want to do.
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I like working in silence.
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The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.
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Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we're doing the right thing.
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It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.
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Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.
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Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.
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I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France.
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There is great food in Vegas.
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I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you.
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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.
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You don't become a chef to become famous.
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Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.
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I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day.
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Nobody wants an ugly book.
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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.
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I like the dynamic of PBS. They're very honest and authentic.
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I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.
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I barely speak English.
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I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.
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When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.
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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.
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One thing I don't like is complaints.
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The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad.
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In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.
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Factory farming's evil; you know that.
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To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself.
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It has been stressful to be a French resident in America.
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Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.
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