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
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.
bit explaining four newspaper reviewers stars three
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.
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.
It has been stressful to be a French resident in America.
I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too.
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.
Chefs are leaders in their own little world.
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.
learn life salt took
It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.
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.