French - Chef | September 13, 1956 -
The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.
Alain Ducasse
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Gastronomy is my hobby. I'm simply the casting director. Once I've brought all the right people together, it is they who must work together to tell a story.
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I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet people different to you. We must fight the spread of a singular way of thinking and preserve cultural differences.
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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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If I had the choice to travel to two places in Europe, it would be Paris and London.
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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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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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In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.
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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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I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.
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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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I concentrate in my work on preserving and displaying the original flavor from each ingredient in a dish.
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