Eric Ripert quotes

You don't become a chef to become famous. (Eric Ripert)
I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu. View quote
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Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables. View quote
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I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family. View quote
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I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking. View quote
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The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words. View quote
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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. (Eric Ripert)
I don't follow the food trends. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day. View quote
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