Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts. — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain. — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu. — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking. — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant. — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast. — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
I love eggs. When it's the season of truffles, scrambled eggs with truffles, and I'm happy. I'm smiling like that. — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
I have more eating memories than cooking memories and many memories of being in the kitchen - I was always attracted to… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
When you serve lobster, you've taken a being's life away. Therefore if you create a recipe, you have to be very dedicated… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
Fast food is both evil and genius. Because of it we can feed a large number of people fairly decently at an… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
I have very vivid memories of being a young child. My mother would create dinner as for us, and when she would… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
It was my first day working at Tour d'Argent, a famous restaurant in Paris, in 1982, and they were celebrating their 400th… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
Cooking is a holistic process of planning, preparing, dining and sharing food. I place food at the center of our humanity, as… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
“Prior to my second stint in Perpignan, I was a fine diner and as I saw it, food was art. At vocational… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant. — Eric Ripert Copy Share
Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else. — Eric Ripert Copy Share
Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain. — Eric Ripert Copy Share
“Prior to my second stint in Perpignan, I was a fine diner and as I saw it, food was art. At vocational school, I… — Eric Ripert Copy Share
My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I would eat… — Eric Ripert Copy Share
To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself. — Eric Ripert Copy Share
Fast food is both evil and genius. Because of it we can feed a large number of people fairly decently at an affordable price.… — Eric Ripert Copy Share
Cooking is a holistic process of planning, preparing, dining and sharing food. I place food at the center of our humanity, as it nourishes… — Eric Ripert Copy Share
A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I… — Eric Ripert Copy Share
