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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. "
Eric Ripert
Past
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Present
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" I am totally anti-technology. "
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" Factory farming's evil; you know that. "
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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 don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day. "
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" Nobody wants an ugly book. "
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" It has been stressful to be a French resident in America. "
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" I'm very inspired by other cultures and very often use what I perceive to be exotic ingredients. "
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" I never pressure myself to do something I don't want to do. "
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" As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast. "
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" Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts. "
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" I like the dynamic of PBS. They're very honest and authentic. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France. "
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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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Think
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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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" The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad. "
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" I'm a very bad baker. "
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" I barely speak English. "
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" I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too. "
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" America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody. "
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America
Food
" I like working in silence. "
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Working
Like
Silence
" You don't become a chef to become famous. "
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" I don't follow the food trends. "
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Trends
Follow
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" I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine. "
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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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" It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato. "
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