America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody. Eric Ripert More Quotes by Eric Ripert More Quotes From Eric Ripert The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Eric Ripert importance reading dream When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I'd flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day. Eric Ripert library dream book Cooking is a holistic process of planning, preparing, dining and sharing food. I place food at the center of our humanity, as it nourishes not only our physical bodies but also our emotional and spiritual lives. Food is truly a cultural phenomenon that informs our traditions and our relationship with the earth. I genuinely believe that food connects us all. Eric Ripert emotional spiritual believe Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else. Eric Ripert changing-your-mind cooking mind For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant. Eric Ripert emotion feelings memories 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. Eric Ripert guilt people thinking In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot. Eric Ripert cooking ideas moving When you serve lobster, you've taken a being's life away. Therefore if you create a recipe, you have to be very dedicated to elevate the lobster, to make it good and tasty of course, but at the end of the day it's a matter of paying homage. Eric Ripert the-end-of-the-day taken lobster I love garlic, and I use it often. Eric Ripert garlic use My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day! Eric Ripert new-year cutting years I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu. Eric Ripert menus restaurants If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay. Eric Ripert nightclubs music-is sound We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time, after the war. My mother had many Vietnamese friends who entertained a lot, and she was taught how to make that spring roll. She would make them all the time. Eric Ripert mother spring war Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables. Eric Ripert fantastic california vegetables You don't become a chef to become famous. Eric Ripert chef I love eggs. When it's the season of truffles, scrambled eggs with truffles, and I'm happy. I'm smiling like that. Eric Ripert truffles scrambled-eggs eggs I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them. Eric Ripert buddhist collecting should The fish is the star of the plate. Eric Ripert fishes plates stars I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family. Eric Ripert farmers my-family sides At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today. Eric Ripert today chef school
