Eric Ripert Quotes

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Eric Ripert

Profession : Chef

Birth : March 2, 1965

Chefs are leaders in their own little world.

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I'm a very bad baker.

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I like working in silence.

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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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You don't become a chef to become famous.

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It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.

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

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I don't follow the food trends.

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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.

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I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere.

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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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I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.

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America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

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I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

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Nobody wants an ugly book.

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

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California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

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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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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.

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I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too.

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