Words matter. These are the best Eric Ripert Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t like it when I go to a restaurant and I’m lectured from the menu.
To me, it’s very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself.
I’m fascinated by Japanese cuisine.
I like working in silence.
I like the dynamic of PBS. They’re very honest and authentic.
I don’t think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day.
Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.
As young cook, especially in France, they’re very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.
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.
Chefs are leaders in their own little world.
I don’t follow the food trends.
I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you.
It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.
I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere.
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.
I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France.
Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.
I’m a very bad baker.
There is great food in Vegas.
Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.
America is a such a melting pot, I’m not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.
I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.
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.
For me, I do not wish to build an empire.
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.
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.
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.
When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.
Nobody wants an ugly book.
I am totally anti-technology.
