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

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The Importance of Discipline in a Kitchen

I was trained in Europe at a very young age in kitchens where the way to educate a cook was through abuse and humiliation. So it was allowed in a kitchen to beat the cooks, like kick them in a bird or beat them in a shoulder or even have punching the cooks and so on. In many kitchens it was allowed and it was common practice. I learned later on in life that it's actually it's embarrassing. It's a huge sign of weakness but it was it was the way many kitchens were training their cooks in European kitchens. Then when I came to the U.S. I was convinced that it was the right way to maintain a kitchen, maintain discipline to create some strong

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