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#268: Eric Ripert -- Lessons in Mastery and Mindfulness

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The Early Days of My Childhood

I was sent when I was eight years old to boarding school, where it became hellish when a priest tried to sexually abuse me. It was hell at home for me as a young kid. At 15 being a very bad student and having a lot of anger issues were linked to that lifestyle. And I asked if I could go to culinary school and learn the craftsmanship of becoming a chef. Those years were not happy years for myself. Then I moved to the US in 1989 without speaking a word of English for huge challengesComing to America and discovering that nobody is waiting for you at the airport with a red carpet and saying, oh my God, you're Spanish, you know, to cook

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