Alain Ducasse famous quotes

04-21-2025

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Food #Two #Mistress
Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes-it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Mistake #Failure #Important
Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Memories #Mistake #Memorable
A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Men #Perfection #Taste
At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Home #Tree #Backyards
The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Wine #Asian #Program
The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Resources #Planets
The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Keys #Together #Important
It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Challenges #Sensual #Intellectual
Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Attitude #Important #Technique
The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Being Different #Relentless #Pursuit
I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Team #Thinking #Piano
Everyone talks about Spanish influences, but where is it?...Tell me 10 great Spanish restaurants in London....You canâ€™t give me the addresses. Nor in Paris.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Paris #Giving #Addresses
Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate...you can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Two #Confusion #Cooking
Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Ducks #Cooking #Adjectives

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