The first season of
Avec Eric took Eric Ripert on culinary journeys everywhere from hunting wild boar in Chianti to swimming with stingrays in the Cayman Islands, with plenty of guest appearances from food world celebs and enough recipes to make for a fantastic cookbook. The newly released
Avec Eric is the companion cookbook to the series, complete with gorgeous photos, in depth info from the episodes and, best of all, recipes to recreate dishes that you've seen on the show. Enter to win a free copy here.
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For this week's Cook the Book column we're featuring
Avec Eric,
Eric Ripert's newly released companion cookbook featuring his
PBS series. We sat down with Eric to talk about his show, travels, and Thanksgiving plans.
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In the first installment of Avec Alan, GQ's food critic Alan Richman introduces French chef Eric Ripert to the wonders and horrors of Costco. How does the fluorescent light-filled warehouse club make make Ripert feel? Not so good: I am freaked out. Costco depresses me. I know everybody doesn't have the same opportunities I do to visit farm stands and little markets, but I will fight to the end for inspirational shopping. Costco doesn't even look like it belongs on our planet. It could be on the moon. It has no relationship to the outside world as I know it. The lighting, the temperature, the outrageous abundance. The store has no life and no contact with anything that comes...
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You’d think that a chef with three Michelin stars would guard his secrets. But Eric Ripert, with Christine Muhlke, has written the restaurant equivalent of a tell-all memoir—well, minus the sordid love affairs. The establishment in question is Le Bernardin, the phenomenally successful fish restaurant now in its 23rd year; the book is On the Line. The sweeping narrative takes you all the way from the front of the house to the back of the pantry, providing “day in the life” timetables for everyone from the porter (“8:41 a.m.—Sorts and smells squid, turning plastic gloves inky”) to the pastry cook (“10:30 .a.m—One hundred dozen petits fours are finished for lunch.”) Dishes are described in detailed play-by-plays (“1:37:54—Flips fish”), kitchen jargon...
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This week,
Eric Ripert guest-judged, and unlike past visitors, he was actually pretty nice. In fact, he had a calming, reassuring presence. In return, the contestants basically worshiped him. The episode was actually cheffy—less psychodrama, more cooking skill and technique.
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Photograph taken by Melissa Hom, from Grub Street Now there's no excuse for finding cartilage in your warm peekytoe crab cake with shaved cauliflower at Le Bernardin. They use an ultraviolet light that distinguishes crabmeat from cartilage (the cartilage appears a much brighter white), which executive chef Eric Ripert discovered last year after seeing it on a French TV program. Related The 50 Best Restaurants in the World, per S. Pellegrino Eric Ripert's New Website In Videos: Anthony Bourdain Interviews Eric Ripert...
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In this clip from No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain interviews Eric Ripert after both of them having worked a dinner shift on the line at Les Halles. [via Eater] Video after the jump....
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