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
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.
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.
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.
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.