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
careers change good life middle people
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.
learn life salt took
It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.
beings eat fruits gift human life meat nature problem sacred therefore
The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.
burdened focus lose managing
What I never want to do is lose my focus on Le Bernardin. That's why I did not want to be burdened with managing the place. I'm not going to be there every day.
It has been stressful to be a French resident in America.
convinced great people
I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you.
build cooks
Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.
tough
As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.
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.
enable essential great knife knives
Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.
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.
chefs
Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.
basically idiots mean naive top
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.
however
I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day.