Eric Ripert Quotes
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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.
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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.
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There is great food in Vegas.
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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.
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I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France.
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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.
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I don't follow the food trends.
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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.
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Nobody wants an ugly book.
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When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.
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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.
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Chefs are leaders in their own little world.
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To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself.
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I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.
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I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too.
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You don't become a chef to become famous.
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Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.
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I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine.
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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.
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Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.
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The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad.
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Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.
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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.
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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.