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The most classic French dessert around the holidays is the Christmas log, with butter cream. Two flavors. Chocolate and coconut. My first job in the kitchen when I was a boy was to make these Christmas logs.
Alain Ducasse
Christmas
Job
First
Dessert
Log
Classic
Kitchen
First Job
Most
French
Make
Around
Boy
Holidays
Flavors
Chocolate
Cream
Coconut
Butter
Two
When I started cooking the meal at home, after I had started cooking in restaurants, I usually would prepare bay scallops or lobster.
Alain Ducasse
Home
Cooking
Meal
Lobster
Bay
Would
Restaurants
Had
After
Prepare
Started
I concentrate in my work on preserving and displaying the original flavor from each ingredient in a dish.
Alain Ducasse
Work
Preserving
Concentrate
Dish
Flavor
Ingredient
Original
Displaying
Each
Believe me, I did not come to London to cook farmed fish. All my fish are wild.
Alain Ducasse
Me
Believe
Wild
London
Come
Fish
Did
Cook
In London, there is no need for 25 high-end gastronomic restaurants. That would be too much.
Alain Ducasse
Too Much
Too
Would
Would-Be
Restaurants
London
High-End
Much
Need
I only get fat when I eat food cooked by other chefs. At home, my wife does all the cooking. She makes simple things like soups and salads. We both like steamed tofu.
Alain Ducasse
Food
Home
Cooking
Simple
Wife
Other
Eat
Only
Both
Simple Things
Like
She
Chefs
Makes
Does
Soups
Salads
Get
Cooked
Things
Fat
The world forgets about people who are not useful.
Alain Ducasse
People
World
About
Forgets
Useful
Who
Our milk chocolate is very chocolaty. In fact, we don't call it milk chocolate - we call it milky chocolate.
Alain Ducasse
Our
Fact
Call
Very
In Fact
Chocolate
Milk
I am a very eco-friendly chef but a guilty air traveller.
Alain Ducasse
Air
Guilty
Chef
Am
Very
Traveller
I have a passion for luggage - trunks and so on. I have a collection of them, but I can never resist buying another piece.
Alain Ducasse
Passion
Collection
Never
Piece
Another
Them
Luggage
Resist
Buying
For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.
Alain Ducasse
Best
Me
Soul
Way
Markets
Best Way
Understand
Going
Place
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.
Alain Ducasse
Too Much
Pressure
Think
Too
Top
System
Rating
Put
Perform
Chefs
Places
Prefer
Much
Standards
I am overfed, so when I am at home, I stop eating.
Alain Ducasse
Home
Eating
Am
Stop
I prefer to be able to identify what I'm eating. I have to know.
Alain Ducasse
Able
Eating
Know
Identify
Prefer
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.
Alain Ducasse
Food
You
Quality
Markets
Poultry
Develop
Instinct
Up
Close
Fields
Help
Grow
Grow Up
Gardens
I do most of the cooking in my head.
Alain Ducasse
Cooking
Head
Most
A splash of red wine vinegar can pull things together like a pinch of salt.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Together
Wine
Salt
Splash
Red
Like
Red Wine
Pinch
Vinegar
Things
Pull
I think that 'celebrity' and 'chef' should be a permanent oxymoron.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Think
Chef
Permanent
Celebrity
Oxymoron
Should
Mashed potatoes with stuff in it? That's '90s.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Stuff
Fresh herbs really belong anywhere you put them.
Alex Guarnaschelli
You
Put
Fresh
Anywhere
Them
Really
Herbs
Belong
It's amazing how meaty cauliflower can be.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Amazing
How
Cauliflower
A homemade hamburger can be a real treat.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Treat
Real
Hamburger
Real Treat
Homemade
I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'
Alex Guarnaschelli
Life
Today
Myself
Day
You
Will
Rest
Said
Woke
End
Up
May
Graduation
Want
Decide
Your
It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.
Alex Guarnaschelli
You
Amazing
Met
Before
Relationships
Someone
Kitchen
Never
Environment
Hot
Knives
Known
Well-Being
Lot
Trusting
Forge
Where
Your
Cooperate
The hardest thing for me is restraint.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Me
Restraint
The Hardest Thing
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Bass
Sacred
Crust
How
Just
Anyone
Information
Sea
Show
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