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Alain Ducasse - The Lifetime Achievement Award 2013

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJRyrDN5ZUYdkZCpe_VuFBWJ4-TcskH9UaxZkrhK0ek_1GxuaIOYS4t0ej_0uzi2w5rHsfb09m22bjhqVtf4kjDlbKKr_ootUEtJCNLlPvC90b_9BIGu-YkQKJeZid6ERbUZkLeZTOOD5M/s1600/Alain+Ducasse-passion4luxury.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJRyrDN5ZUYdkZCpe_VuFBWJ4-TcskH9UaxZkrhK0ek_1GxuaIOYS4t0ej_0uzi2w5rHsfb09m22bjhqVtf4kjDlbKKr_ootUEtJCNLlPvC90b_9BIGu-YkQKJeZid6ERbUZkLeZTOOD5M/s640/Alain+Ducasse-passion4luxury.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"The future of cooking in part rests on diversity. Each chef has his  emotional territory – this difference makes the wealth of the ensemble" </div><a name="more"></a><h2 style="border-bottom: 0; margin-top: 20px;">Alain Ducasse</h2><div style="text-align: center;"><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Let's start with some numbers. Twenty-four individual restaurants in nine countries across three continents. Three separate three-Michelin-star restaurants in three cities. Twenty-five years of the flagship Louis XV restaurant in Monaco, prompting an anniversary gathering of some 240 chefs from all corners of the globe. Multiple appearances on The World's 50 Best Restaurants list. A career spanning well over 30 years. All stemming from just one man.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Alain Ducasse is one of the world's most successful, influential and respected chefs and restaurateurs. Born in south-western France's Les Landes region 56 years ago, Ducasse has embarked on an extraordinary culinary journey, which is rooted in his native land but has seen him travel the globe both seeking and spreading culinary influence and inspiration.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">His portfolio of restaurants is notable not only for its consistently high quality and global reach, but also for the range of styles contained within it, from ornate fine-dining rooms to casual bistros, from bastions of classical French cuisine to experimental multi-ethnic concepts. Ducasse is an international chef in every sense.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And the empire continues to expand: last year saw the team's first foray into the Middle East with the opening of IDAM in the stunning Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar; this spring it débuts a new concept in the Byblos Hotel in St Tropez, called Rivea.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">However, this is not just a very successful businessman, but also a hugely imaginative chef and passionate mentor. In the often traditional world of French gastronomy, he has broken down barriers, championed progression and explored culinary cultures, while respecting history. “The future of cooking in part rests on our diversity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Each chef has his own specific emotional territory – and it is this difference that makes the wealth of the ensemble,” he says.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ducasse and his team have nurtured and trained a generation of chefs, many of whom are now also part of the world's culinary élite. What's more, it is on this sphere of education and knowledge-sharing that the energetic entrepreneur aims primarily to focus in the future.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“We must attract talent and guarantee continuity. Mentoring is about the transmission of knowledge,” he says. Backing such words with action, Ducasse oversees two cooking schools – one of which, the École Nationale Supérieure de la Pâtisserie in Yssingeaux, is acknowledged as the world's premier pastry-chef academy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In direct reference to the chef's insistence on and championing of making everything from scratch, the company recently opened its own artisanal chocolate-making facility in Paris. Called <a href="http://passion4luxury.blogspot.gr/2013/02/alain-ducasse-opens-chocolate-boutique_20.html">La Manufacture</a>, it creates premium chocolate products all the way from bean to bar.</span></div></div></div>

Alain Ducasse - The Lifetime Achievement Award 2013

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Alain Ducasse opens a chocolate boutique in Paris

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAS-_q_8RpPNpxUimpNle77PrMWciaE2hfyTEJlkQDNWBX17wjpu3guKe3SacV1ehbeAaYBUBghMqwgbEvvye1WRUIWcH2dimrVQ6NFv0QuLmd1kWsP-WPV1XGrcEBZlN0QY7_VXWkldE/s1600/le-chocolat-alain-ducasse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAS-_q_8RpPNpxUimpNle77PrMWciaE2hfyTEJlkQDNWBX17wjpu3guKe3SacV1ehbeAaYBUBghMqwgbEvvye1WRUIWcH2dimrVQ6NFv0QuLmd1kWsP-WPV1XGrcEBZlN0QY7_VXWkldE/s640/le-chocolat-alain-ducasse.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"> Alain Ducasse has thrown his chef’s hat into the increasingly saturated Parisian chocolate scene with a bean-to-chocolate store that will open this week.</span></div><a name="more"></a>Set in the heart of Bastille inside what was formerly a garage, <a href="http://www.lechocolat-alainducasse.com/">Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"> is the culmination of a 30-year-old dream for the Michelin-starred chef who put chocolatier Nicholas Berger in charge of the boutique.</span><br />  <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">The premise? A bean-to-bar chocolate shop, where cacao beans will be roasted on-site before being melted, tempered and handcrafted into bonbons, bars, pralines and ganaches.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Cacao beans are sourced from countries as diverse as Madagascar, Peru, Trinidad, Venezuela, and Vietnam, while ganaches and bonbons are flavored with everything from lime, blackcurrant, mint, prune-Armagnac, coconut-passion fruit, vanilla, coffee and lemon-tea.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Other ingredients used include peanuts, pistachios, hazelnuts and dried fruit such as orange, ginger and raisins.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Concrete, exposed brick walls, and vintage antique shop finds such as steel gates which once guarded the former Bank of France lend the space an industrial feel, in tandem with the boutique’s bean-to-bar concept.</span></div></div>

Alain Ducasse opens a chocolate boutique in Paris

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