I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere. — Eric Ripert Beautiful Copy Share Image
Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables. — Eric Ripert California Copy Share Image
Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz. — Eric Ripert Gentle Copy Share Image
The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. — Eric Ripert Books Copy Share Image
Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts. — Eric Ripert Chefs Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you. — 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 Emotion Copy Share Image
I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not. — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not,… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I… — Eric Ripert Apples 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 Cooking Copy Share Image
We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time,… — Eric Ripert France Copy Share Image
California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in… — Eric Ripert California Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t her fault, but it was her fate, like so many single mothers, to be caught between a wistful child and… — Eric Ripert Children 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
The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows… — Eric Ripert Beautiful Copy Share Image
A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
I am an audiophile. It's almost like a virus. I'm completely crazy about the quality of sound. It's interesting and painful at… — 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 Apples 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 Art Copy Share Image
