Eric Ripert

“There is great food in Vegas.”

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

“I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere.”

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

“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.”

“I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day.”

“I'm a very bad baker.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.”

“I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too.”

“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.”

“I like the dynamic of PBS. They're very honest and authentic.”

“I am totally anti-technology.”

“The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad.”

“Nobody wants an ugly book.”

“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.”

“Factory farming's evil; you know that.”

“I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you.”

“I barely speak English.”