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'Ducasse Made Simple': Uneven Execution

From left: Sophie Dudemaine, Sirio Maccioni, Gwenaelle Ducasse, and Alain Ducasse. Photograph by Sara Jaye Weiss On Monday night, Serious Eats attended the launch party for Sophie Dudemaine's latest cookbook, Ducasse Made Simple. Dudemaine could best be described as the French equivalent of Rachael Ray. Bubbly and beloved, she is a French television personality and the unusually prolific author of 17 cookbooks. With each cookbook, she attempts to render the complicated into 45-minute recipes for fledgling home cooks. When asked why, of all French chefs, she chose to write an Alain Ducasse cookbook, she replied, "I listen to my viewers. I give them what they want." Asked what the 100 recipes chosen from Ducasse's Grand Livre de Cuisine had...

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2 Comments | Posted by Tam Ngo, October 31, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Tagged: Adour, Alain Ducasse, book reviews, books, celebrity chefs, Ducasse Made Simple, Sophie Dudemaine

D.C. Critic Live Twitters Alain Ducasse’s New Restaurant

Washingtonian restaurant critic Todd Kliman went into Twitter overdrive earlier this week, live-reviewing Alain Ducasse's new restaurant Adour, located inside the D.C. St. Regis. Kliman tweets over 2,000 words, including: "Weird: the music's BETTER in the men's room."...

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1 Comment | Posted by Erin Zimmer, September 11, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Tagged: Adour, Alain Ducasse, celebrity chefs, Twitter, Washington D.C.