Food Quotes by Eric Ripert

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

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

Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.

— Eric Ripert

“Prior to my second stint in Perpignan, I was a fine diner and as I saw it, food was art. At vocational…

— Eric Ripert

Cooking is a holistic process of planning, preparing, dining and sharing food. I place food at the center of our humanity, as…

— Eric Ripert

There is great food in Vegas.

— Eric Ripert

When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in…

— Eric Ripert

Chefs are leaders in their own little world.

— Eric Ripert

At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning…

— Eric Ripert

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

Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.

— Eric Ripert

You don't become a chef to become famous.

— Eric Ripert

I have more eating memories than cooking memories and many memories of being in the kitchen - I was always attracted to…

— Eric Ripert

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

— Eric Ripert

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

I don't follow the food trends.

— Eric Ripert