Chef Eric Ripert’s secret to outlasting trends
Life and Art from FT Weekend
Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This week, we speak to legendary chef Eric Ripert on the 50th anniversary of his restaurant Le Bernardin, possibly the most consistently critically beloved restaurant in the world. Keeping a restaurant relevant over time takes work and constant change. More than 30 years in, he tells us what it takes to lead a lasting institution. Then, FT Weekend editor Alec Russell and senior editor Horatia Harrod join Lilah to talk comedy. As comedians navigate artistic expression, respect, and where to draw the line onstage, we explore what makes something funny today.
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Links and mentions from the episode:
– Eric has a PBS series called Avec Eric and a delightful video series called Get Toasted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NefJDmTgX08
– Eric’s three books are the cookbooks Vegetable Simple and the Le Bernardin Cookbook, and the memoir 32 Yolks
– Lilah’s piece on comedy: https://on.ft.com/3G5WDmJ
– Alec is on Twitter @alecurussell. Horatia is on Twitter @horatiaharrod
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Original music by Metaphor Music. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, listeners, it's Lila. |
| 0:02.4 | One quick announcement before we start the show, we are preparing for our annual |
| 0:06.2 | cultural predictions episode for the end of the year, which means that FT magazine editor |
| 0:11.1 | Matt Vela will be back on the show with me to talk through your cultural predictions for |
| 0:15.7 | 2023. |
| 0:17.1 | You may remember last year you wanted Beyonce to drop an album, you wanted the return of the flip phone. |
| 0:23.1 | What do you want now? Let us know one thing that you either think will happen or you want to happen next year. |
| 0:30.3 | I've put a link in our show notes, which will bring you to a place where you can easily record a voice note. |
| 0:35.4 | So tap that link and make sure to get us something before |
| 0:38.4 | this Wednesday, November 16th. We'll be playing some of your voice notes on the show. |
| 0:43.2 | By the way, we loved your messages that challenged us to make a boring topic interesting. |
| 0:47.7 | The first of those segments is coming in a few weeks. Last note, this episode contains a bit of |
| 0:53.1 | adult language and themes in the second segment. |
| 0:56.3 | You've been warned. |
| 0:57.6 | Enjoy the show. |
| 1:00.9 | There's only one restaurant in New York that's kept a four-star New York Times rating over 35 years. |
| 1:08.8 | Maybe. |
| 1:09.9 | Maybe I'm here. I did a tour of it recently on a busy Tuesday morning just before lunchtime. |
| 1:15.6 | It's called LeBernadine. |
| 1:17.6 | So tell me, is this how the restaurant looked when you first started? |
| 1:22.6 | It was very different, the kitchen. |
| 1:24.6 | The kitchen is actually exactly the same, except that we have changed the stove many, many times. |
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