Paparazzi<\/a> routinely stake out the renowned restaurant \u2014 and sometimes the guests call the shutterbugs themselves.<\/p>\n\u201cOnce it was a very powerful politician, I cannot say the name, but then suddenly we see like 20 paparazzi outside \u2026 and I said, \u2026 \u2018If you want, we can get you out through other ways,\u2019 and he said, \u2018No, don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s me, we called them.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Ripert said the A-list eater who made the biggest impression on him was the Dalai Lama, for whom he cooked twice.<\/p>\n
On the Dalai Lama\u2019s first visit, Ripert prepared wild salmon, and on the second, filet mignon \u2014 but it was dessert that made an impression on the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe never really showed much emotion, except when he had the chocolate mousse,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
The celebrity chef\u2019s ninth book, \u201cMindful Cooking\u201d is out on Oct. 6.<\/p>\n
The three Michelin-starred restaurant\u2019s bestseller is carpaccio of tuna on a toasted baguette with foie gras. Courtesy of Random House<\/p>\n
The French native, who studies Tibetan Buddhism himself, said his new cookbook was inspired by his travels to Buddhist monasteries in Asia. There, monks follow a plant-based diet so as not to harm animals, and go without vegetables such as garlic and onions for spiritual reasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnions supposedly make you sleepy when you are in meditation and also give you bad dreams \u2026 Garlic makes your blood circulate a bit faster. And warming the blood is not helpful for meditation and also, as you can imagine, a thousand monks with garlic breath is a bit of a problem sometimes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey consider food as medicine \u2026 They believe everything that we put in our body will have a positive or negative effect depending on what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ripert said Le Bernardin\u2019s bestselling menu item is the carpaccio of tuna on a toasted baguette with foie gras.<\/p>\n
It sold so well that he once took it off the menu so that customers could try other dishes.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd for the first time in my career I saw really angry clients \u2026 They were very vocal in the restaurant and they were calling me to their table \u2026 explaining that it was a huge mistake and they were very unhappy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI kind of, through an analogy, understood. It\u2019s like you go to a Rolling Stones<\/a> concert and then they\u2019re like, \u2018No, we\u2019re not going to play \u2018No Satisfaction.\u2019 No, it\u2019s not happening today.\u2019 You can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a \u201cBlank Space\u201d in this world-famous dining room. Although countless celebrities have wined and dined at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[10941,223,236,13241,36966,156447,88,338836,186,3286,366766,18207,27643,4227,120758,1733,34868,2606,4322,84682,4915],"class_list":["post-869979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-beyonce","tag-books","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-chefs","tag-chefs","tag-dalai-lama","tag-entertainment","tag-eric-ripert","tag-exclusive","tag-food-drink","tag-french-dining","tag-jay-z","tag-john-legend","tag-manhattan","tag-michelin","tag-mick-jagger","tag-midtown","tag-paparazzi","tag-restaurants","tag-richard-gere","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}