Latest Eric Ripert Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Cooking, Mind, Changing Your Mind

• If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

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  Sound, Music Is, Nightclubs

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• I'm very bad, but I like to dance.

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• Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz.

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  Want, Today, Jazz

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• In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

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  New York, Sound, Clubs

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• I love eggs. When it's the season of truffles, scrambled eggs with truffles, and I'm happy. I'm smiling like that.

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  Eggs, Scrambled Eggs, Truffles

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Interesting, Quality

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Cutting, Paris

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• 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.

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  Careers, Months, Week

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• 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.

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  School, Today, Chef

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• When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.

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  Passion, Paris, Dining

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• I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

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  Passion, Cooking, Students

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• My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I would eat one full apple tart.

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  Mother, Apples, Style

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• 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.

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  Rain, Exercise, Central Park

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• I have more eating memories than cooking memories and many memories of being in the kitchen - I was always attracted to the kitchen - but nobody ever wanted me to touch anything.

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  Memories, Cooking, Kitchen

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• 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.

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  Mother, Spring, War

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• 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.

  Eric Ripert

  Mother, Memories, Children

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com