Quotes by Eric Ripert

About Eric Ripert:

Eric Ripert is a French chef, author and television personality specializing in modern French cuisine and renowned for his work with seafood.
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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 don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

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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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It has been stressful to be a French resident in America.

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The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad.

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Factory farming's evil; you know that.

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Chefs are leaders in their own little world.

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I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France.

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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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I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day.

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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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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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I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere.

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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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For me, I do not wish to build an empire.

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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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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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I never pressure myself to do something I don't want to do.

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I'm a very bad baker.

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I like working in silence.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameEric Ripert
  • DescriptionFrench chef
  • BornMarch 2, 1965
  • ProfessionChef