Top 48 Quotes by Eric Ripert

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast.

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.

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.

When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.

Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.

One thing I don't like is complaints.

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.

A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.

I'm a very bad baker.