Eric Ripert Quotes

My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

I've always been one of those people who romanticized cooking, but the few attempts I'd made in my life resulted in friends' contorted faces as they desperately tried to say something nice about the "dish" they were eating.

I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.

I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.

You can't fake being able to cook well.

I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life — every aspect of it. So, in some ways, the thought of not being able to do that anymore radically affects your life.

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself being resentful of the idea; "Now you will make a good wife. You can cook, right?" So when people ask me I go, "No, I don't like cooking!"

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.

As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

I guess I fell into cooking.

I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and taste.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

I've never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.