Eric Ripert says his parents insisted he eat brains when he was a kid
At his acclaimed, Michelin-starred restaurant, Le Bernardin, chef Eric Ripert serves up seafood delicacies like scallops, lobster and octopus. But something the French chef will never add to his menu is brains.
"I basically eat everything except for brains," Ripert tells Yahoo Life. "I do not like brains.
Gordon Ramsay explains why he thinks his Hell's Kitchen restaurants have 'become the 21st Century Hard Rock Café'
On Next Level Chef, Gordon Ramsay encourages culinary hopefuls to cook great food that will save them from elimination and get them one step closer to winning the reality cooking competition. But his gentle demeanor and calm way of explaining cooking techniques is vastly different from the Ramsay Hell's Kitchen fans are used to seeing on their televisions.
Hilary Duff shares why she's had to limit her wine-drinking as she gets older: 'I'll wake up at 3 in the morning with anxiety'
On How I Met Your Father, Hilary Duff spends time with friends at Manhattan bars and trendy dinner parties. But in real life, the 35-year-old mom of three says she's become "a short-order chef" in her own kitchen.
"It's tough. Some days are tougher than others,” she tells Yahoo Life of cooking for Luca, 10; Banks, 4; and Mae, 1.
Why Dolly Parton eats her own home-cooked meals on tour: 'I like to eat something comforting'
As the fourth of 12 children, Dolly Parton spent lots of time watching her mother cook, but it's a recipe from her dad that she often uses to start her 9 to 5. "When we were growing up," she recalls, "sometimes when Momma was sick or having a baby, Daddy would help with the cooking."
Parton still makes her dad's milk gravy (a white gravy made with flour and milk and typically served with sausage and biscuits) for breakfast "at least once a week," she tells Yahoo Life. "My daddy was left-handed, so when he would make that gravy, he would call it 'left-handed gravy,' so we loved Daddy's left-handed gravy."