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
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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.
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It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.
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Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.
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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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I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day.
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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.
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Michelin will have to do a bit of explaining with only three stars at the top. Most of the newspaper reviewers here go up to four stars.
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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.
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.
I never pressure myself to do something I don't want to do.
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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.
I like the dynamic of PBS. They're very honest and authentic.
For me, I do not wish to build an empire.