Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.
ALAIN DUCASSEDesserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.
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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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Nowadays, food needs to be healthy, local, sustainable and not filled with too much fat, salt or sugar.
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It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.
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Everywhere in the world there are tensions – economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.
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The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life’s negative moments.
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The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.
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It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten.
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Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.
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It should be slow-cooked and seasonal. That’s my vision.
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You can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion.
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Cuisine has become too complicated – this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
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The image foreigners have of French cuisine is fattening and very fancy food. But it’s not true – French food isn’t just rich. The word “healthy” doesn’t exist in French.
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We have many, many words, but not that one. To me, healthy means paying close attention to feeding people.
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The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.
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Failure is enriching. It’s also important to accept that you’ll make mistakes – it’s how you build your expertise.
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