The 39+ Eric Ripert Quotes

Fast Food Is Both Evil And Genius. Because Of It We Can Feed A Large Number Of People Fairly Decently At An Affordable Price. However, All The Artificial Flavors And Artificial Ingredients In Some Of Their Products Are Unacceptable. And It's Designed So You Can Eat Fast So You Get Back To Work More Quickly. Not Good.

California Is Lucky, The East Coast Is Lucky Because We Get Great Seafood And A Lot Of Produce From Florida, Locally In Good Weather, But In The Winter We Have To Buy It.

When You Are 25, 30, You Know, You Have No Responsibility, No Mortgage, No Kids, No Retirement To Think About, Nothing.

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.

Just Walking In The Kitchen (and We Have Three Kitchens At Le Bernardin), I Exercise Quite A Lot. I Also Walk In Central Park For 50 Minutes From My House To Le Bernardin Every Day, Rain, Shine, Snow.

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.

Today, Because I Want To Be Gentle On My Back, I Listen To Jazz.

When I Realized, "hm, I'm Not That Good At All. It Will Take Me Weeks, Maybe Months, To Master The 32 Yolks." When I Did, It Was A Turning Point In My Career.

I'm Very Bad, But I Like To Dance.

I Am An Audiophile. It's Almost Like A Virus. I'm Completely Crazy About The Quality Of Sound. It's Interesting And Painful At The Same Time; You Have To Really Spend A Lot Of Money On The Equipment.

In New York There Used To Be Some Very Good Clubs With Amazing Sound Systems. Techno Was Part Of The Process.

I Have Very Vivid Memories Of Being A Young Child. My Mother Would Create Dinner As For Us, And When She Would Bake, She Would Leave Some Dough For Me. I Would Roll The Dough Into Little Sticks While She Was Cooking The Apple Tart Of Whatever. I Was Looking Through The Window Of The Oven And Flipping The Light, And Then My Bread Would Come Out, And It Was Inedible, Of Course.