99 Quotes by Eric Ripert

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that’s why it’s not just a restaurant.

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

My New Year’s resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day!

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.

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything – however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

You don’t become a chef to become famous.

I don’t follow the food trends.

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.

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.