Eric Ripert
Eric Ripert
Eric Ripertis a French chef, author and television personality specializing in modern French cuisine and noted for his work with seafood...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth2 March 1965
CountryFrance
buddhist collecting should
I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.
eggs scrambled-eggs truffles
I love eggs. When it's the season of truffles, scrambled eggs with truffles, and I'm happy. I'm smiling like that.
mistake cutting paris
It was my first day working at Tour d'Argent, a famous restaurant in Paris, in 1982, and they were celebrating their 400th anniversary. I am in the fish station and after many mistakes, including cutting myself after 30 seconds in that kitchen, the chef said, "Make a Hollandaise sauce with 32 yolks." It takes me forever to separate the yolks from the whites, and I put them in a bowl and try to go close to the stove, but the stove is way too hot for me.
putting
We are putting in a lot of fabrics.
economy everybody inside land preserve region wants
Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we're doing the right thing.
however
I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day.
chefs
Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.
learn life salt took
It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.
carrot dish
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.
enable essential great knife knives
Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.
climbing
When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.
tough
As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.
build cooks
Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.
It has been stressful to be a French resident in America.