Alain Ducasse Quotes

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Alain Ducasse

Profession : Chef

Birth : September 13, 1956

London is the most important city in the world for restaurants.

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Our milk chocolate is very chocolaty. In fact, we don't call it milk chocolate - we call it milky chocolate.

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My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, 'Garden, Papa!' and then he eats what he picks.

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At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

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When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would prepare bay scallops or lobster.

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I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.

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I am overfed, so when I am at home, I stop eating.

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If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.

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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.

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It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the food, the music, the staff. From the beginning to the end, with all these different elements, it tells a full story that you know very well how to develop and cultivate.

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The world forgets about people who are not useful.

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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.

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I don't like being a celebrity.

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Believe me, I did not come to London to cook farmed fish. All my fish are wild.

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In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.

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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.

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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.

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It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.

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What they've found so far in the Amazon is 5 percent of what there is yet to discover to eat in the Amazon because it's completely unknown. I've eaten things I've never eaten before over there.

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The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

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