Alain Ducasse Quotes
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Alain Ducasse Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.
With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.
The real evolution is to learn something new every day - it's very important for chefs to share what they have discovered.
My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.
I have restaurants, bookshops ... but it's not an empire, more ... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same.
I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.
I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.
I concentrate in my work on preserving and displaying the original flavor from each ingredient in a dish.
Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate. You can mix two styles and get fusion; any more, and you just get confusion.
When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would prepare bay scallops or lobster.
I don't do the same food in Tokyo that I do in Vegas and vice versa. If I did that, two weeks later I would have no customers.
Our milk chocolate is very chocolaty. In fact, we don't call it milk chocolate - we call it milky chocolate.
I don't think the rating system places too much pressure on chefs. I prefer to put the pressure on my chefs to perform to the top standards.
If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.
I have a passion for luggage - trunks and so on. I have a collection of them, but I can never resist buying another piece.
Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook.
In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.
Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.
I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interesting new ideas, new ways of looking at ingredients.
In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.
To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.
If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with.
Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.
The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.
I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.
You take the best ingredients - the best cocoa beans - and you process them in the best traditional way, and you have the best chocolate.
If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virgin olive oil.