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Great read about leaning to love food and the unique French culinary school system.

How to feel all at once bad for being kinda old and also for being a food slob who just eats whatever is around....
Loving the book, though!

This memoir covers Michelin-starred chef Ripert‘s formative years in France and Andorra. His childhood was rich in money but not love, however he found his way, via a neighborhood chef, to culinary school and eventually to Joël Robuchon in the early 1980s at the vanguard of nouvelle French cuisine. All by age 24. The book ends as he boards a plane to work in America. I hope he writes a sequel! #audiobook

It‘s about the early days of Eric Ripert, his struggling childhood, love relationship with food, and the journey of training to becoming (a chef).
The writing is authentic, warm, and vivid. I especially like his memories about his dad, and the scenes about his mom/grandma‘s cooking and the pastoral peace and warm feeling of a family gathering. And the craftsmanship of cooking is inspiring.
Love this book! And more pls, about his later US journey!

Very interesting! Added this to my list years ago after seeing him with Anthony Bourdain. #bookspin pick for March. @TheAromaofBooks

Look forward to this every month! #bookspin #doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

I tend to enjoy chef memoirs and this was no exception. Eric Ripert delves into his childhood, his time at culinary school, and his early years on the line. He treats his subjects with honesty and compassion, and I would love to read more by him.

Oh, my sweet neighborhood Dollar Tree...a book I very much loved, by one of my favorite chefs, and then at home I notice it‘s signed?! 😍💵🌳💚 #dollartree

Took me forever to finish this because I‘ve been on a serious Netflix binge. But I highly enjoyed it!

Currently reading. I love memoirs, and I LOVE chefs!

I really enjoyed this memoir, in which famed chef Eric Ripert tells the story of his childhood in southern France and Andorra, as well as his early days of cooking in Paris.

#foodmemoir #memoir #cooking #nonfiction #chef

Chef Ripert made me aware that my knife skills are pathetic. And that I desperately want to go to France and eat meal after delicious meal. But even more this is a story of backbreaking work, ambition, and family support. It took balls to go from culinary school to Michelin-starred kitchens, but Ripert did it. And he lived to very engagingly tell the tale. Great foodie memoir!

Full review at www.TheBibliophage.com
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I don‘t buy many e-books, but considering a purchase of this one - even though I‘ve already read it - because I loved it so much! An excellent foodie book/memoir of Ripert‘s early life. (Fingers crossed that he is working on one about his life since then!) 🍳💛

My dream is that some day we'll be able to change the type of post in Litsy as I meant my last post on this book to be a review but put it under blurb.😖

This memoir covers Eric Ripert's time as a small boy in France up until he gets on a plane to America in '89. I hope he does a follow up because my only 'beef'😋is that I want to know more about his life after that. Great childhood memories & stories of his journey to chef. Good narration too.👍

#Aprella #BusyEarning 🥄Catching up on yesterday's challenge. Finished the audiobook today & like Eric Ripert even more. A difficult upbringing with the death of his father, an abusive stepfather, & other hardships-but he found solace & purpose in his passion for food. Great stories about his growth as a cook & time working the line, Ripert was busy learning & earning from a young age. I hope there's a 2nd book as he's got more story to tell.👨‍🍳

It was interesting to read about Ripert's early years, but I wish there was more about his career in US, I felt the book ended somewhat too abruptly. Otherwise if was fun.

"Still, by mastering those thirty-two yolks, I had done something right. I was becoming a real cook."

This is not just a pretty cover and fitting title, it's a damn good coming-of-age memoir. I can only hope that Ripert teams up with Veronica Chambers again to write about his life in America.

I had a handsome visitor this morning while snapping my photo. ??

The kids are asleep. It's time to get wild. 📚🤓🍷🍷#booksandbooze #cheers

#booksandbrews Had to try this local brew because of the name: "Walk the Lime." ??????Johnny Cash lived on the lake in our little Nashville suburb for 35 years. Sadly, his estate burned down to almost nothing in 2007 (4 years after he and June both passed and, at the time, owned by Bee Gee Barry Gibb). It's currently for sale for a cool $4M: https://www.redfin.com/TN/Hendersonville/200-Caudill-Dr-37075/home/92254098 ??

What a wonderful memoir by one of my favorite chefs. Ripert's upbringing in the south of France and his teeth-cutting under the intense Robuchon was fascinating. I just wish this was longer and covered his time in NY and opening Le Bernardin. This photo is from My Last Supper by Melanie Dunea, also an amazing book (plus she's an excellent Instagram follow).

I have thought a lot of Eric Ripert's recipes since I first saw him on Martha Stewart's show many years ago. What a complex chef! Such an interesting memoir letting us in on working at Michelin starred restaurants and his emotional life growing up. I thoroughly enjoyed this, wish it were longer. Perhaps there will be another sometime with his experiences once he got to the US.

I tend to love food and cooking-related memoirs. I don't know if I'd go as far as to say I *loved* this one, but it was an enjoyable and readable chronicle of this chef's very intense early career. #bookclubpick #foodmemoir

As you can probably tell, we're pretty excited about getting #bookmail today! Thank you, #GoodreadsGiveaways, for our newest addition to Mount #TBR ! 📚

That feeling when your library hold is ready. 💖💜💕

Currently listening to this

I have really been trying to establish some cooking skills over the last few years but I always want to learn more and refine my skills by reading books by actual chefs! #atopicyoudliketoknowmoreabout #readjanuary

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Eh, this was ok.?
Not bad, but not great.

After having had such a wonderfully visceral experience listening to "Yes Chef" by Marcus Samuelsson, this culinary memoir just wasn't anywhere nearly as memorable or compelling in comparison.

I came downstairs to this sweetness going on. The men of the house enjoying a little Sunday night reading. 🐶💕

Part two of my #bookbinge. The top two are cookbooks I've checked out from the library and wanted a copy of my own, bottom right is a hardcover copy of an ARC I received (hadn't read it yet but a cat threw up on it - grossly unreadable), and the bottom left, well, I love foodie books and memoirs, and I really like Eric Ripert.

light and quick, a palate cleanser.

Love me a good culinary memoir!

A really fun and charming read just like Chef Eric Ripert appears to be. I do wish there were pictures of the food and young Ripert.

Looking forward to this delicious read. And, here's a strawberry tiramisu that I made.

A very late #tbrtuesday because I couldn't make it to the library yesterday. The new fiscal year has started so my library system has all the new books coming in, at one time. #libraryhaul

The story of a life well, but not easily, lived.
I enjoyed this book so freaking much! Read my full review here: http://bookishdevices.com/2016/06/07/32yolks

"This was simple food. Cooked from the heart. I loved nothing more."

I LOVED THIS BOOK! Yes I was already a fangirl and therefore biased but I enjoyed this memoir more than I even expected to--so much so that I finished it in two sittings. Full review to come later but if anyone is on the fence about whether or not to read it, the answer is YES!

Finished 32 yolks last night! Loved it! Now ready to start Sweet Bitter!

"Eight years old, I thought, and thrown away."

Really enjoying this book so far. But wondering why memoirs these days are not including photos? Is it $ costs? I really wonder ?

Heard about this on the "All the Books" Book Riot podcast and I loved "No Reservations" and Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential," so this sounds like another one I will enjoy!

Enjoying this on audiobook quite a bit, even though it is tragically not narrated by Eric and his dreamy accent. 🍴🇫🇷

Just got this in the mail today!