99 Quotes by Eric Ripert

When you serve lobster, you’ve taken a being’s life away. Therefore if you create a recipe, you have to be very dedicated to elevate the lobster, to make it good and tasty of course, but at the end of the day it’s a matter of paying homage.

When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I’d flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day.

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

America is a such a melting pot, I’m not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

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

I’m very bad, but I like to dance.

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.

Factory farming's evil; you know that.

I barely speak English.