Entries tagged with 'Alain Ducasse'
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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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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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Alain Ducasse Interview

I'm happy to learn that Alain Ducasse and I have something in common (besides the first five letters of our names)—we both like Chicken McNuggets. Read more about the 15-Michelin-star chef in his recent Financial Times interview....

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Alain Ducasse In The Windy City?

Chicago to get Joel Robuchon by the end of next year, maybe Alain Ducasse too? Ducasse currently runs ten restaurants (not counting his place in NYC, which is closed but reopening this spring) so it's not like he'd be moving to Chicago to work the kitchen, but this is still a pretty exciting rumor—Ducasse is the only chef in the world to have three restaurants with three Michelin stars each. [via Grub Street]...

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One Reason To Stay On Earth

Space station food.... Although Alain Ducasse is trying to remedy the situation.... As South African blogger Kitsch 'n' Zinc remarks, "they say that the restaurant on the space station has great food now, incredible views but still no atmosphere."...

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Chutzpah, Truffles, and Alain Ducasse

Continue reading... About the author: Adam Roberts is The Amateur Gourmet. His book, The Amateur Gourmet, will be published by Bantam/Dell in summer 2007....

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