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Eric Ripert [1965-0] French

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Eric Ripert is a French chef, author and television personality specializing in modern French cuisine and noted for his work with seafood.

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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.		101
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.		102
It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.		103
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.		104
The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad.		105
I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.		106
I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day.		107
Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.		108
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.		109
I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.		110
Factory farming's evil; you know that.		111
Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.		112
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.		113
Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.		114
You don't become a chef to become famous.	Famous	115
One thing I don't like is complaints.		116
America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.		117
Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.		118
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.		119
In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.		120
I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too.		121
I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.		122
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.		123
As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.		124
It has been stressful to be a French resident in America.		125
I barely speak English.		126
Chefs are leaders in their own little world.		201
I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you.		202
I like the dynamic of PBS. They're very honest and authentic.		203
When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries himself.		204
I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere.		205
I'm very inspired by other cultures and very often use what I perceive to be exotic ingredients.		206
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.		207
Nobody wants an ugly book.		208
I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France.		209
When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.		210
To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself.		211
There is great food in Vegas.		212
For me, I do not wish to build an empire.		213
I don't follow the food trends.		214
Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.		215
I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.		216
I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.		217
I am totally anti-technology.		218
A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.		219
I never pressure myself to do something I don't want to do.		220
I'm a very bad baker.		221
I like working in silence.		222

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