Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad. "
Eric Ripert
Bad
Factory
Cheesecake
Related Quotes:
" Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain. "
Eric Ripert
Long
Day
Stand
" You don't become a chef to become famous. "
Eric Ripert
Famous
Become
Chef
" Nobody wants an ugly book. "
Eric Ripert
Nobody
Book
Wants
" 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. "
Eric Ripert
I Am
Mountain
Down
" I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France. "
Eric Ripert
America
Interesting
Find
" To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself. "
Eric Ripert
Me
Time
Myself
" 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. "
Eric Ripert
You
Doing
Think
" I like working in silence. "
Eric Ripert
Working
Like
Silence
" I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family. "
Eric Ripert
Come
Sides
Farmers
" 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. "
Eric Ripert
Kitchen
Moving
Professional
" Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking. "
Eric Ripert
Cooking
You
Great
" Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables. "
Eric Ripert
California
Vegetables
Terms
" There is great food in Vegas. "
Eric Ripert
Great
Food
Vegas
" For me, I do not wish to build an empire. "
Eric Ripert
Me
Build
Wish
" I never pressure myself to do something I don't want to do. "
Eric Ripert
Pressure
Want
Something
" I'm very inspired by other cultures and very often use what I perceive to be exotic ingredients. "
Eric Ripert
Other
Inspired
Cultures
" It has been stressful to be a French resident in America. "
Eric Ripert
Stressful
America
Been
" As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast. "
Eric Ripert
Humble
Fast
You
" Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts. "
Eric Ripert
Some
Restaurant
Chefs
" 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. "
Eric Ripert
Own
Support
Deep
" I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu. "
Eric Ripert
Menu
Restaurant
Like
" America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody. "
Eric Ripert
Classic
America
Food
" 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
Picture
Present
" I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them. "
Eric Ripert
Anything
Collecting
I Am
" I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too. "
Eric Ripert
Much
Too
Wife
" 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. "
Eric Ripert
Mean
Genius
Cooking
" 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. "
Eric Ripert
Think
People
Enjoy
" Factory farming's evil; you know that. "
Eric Ripert
You
Know
Farming
" It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato. "
Eric Ripert
Tomato
My Life
Me
" I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day. "
Eric Ripert
Think
Every Day
Chocolate