The best Quotes by Alain Ducasse

Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.

The real evolution is to learn something new every day - it's very important for chefs to share what they have discovered.

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

Don't ever let a recipe tell you how much garlic to put in. You measure that with your heart.

Do I look like someone who cooks? I can open a can of Coke Light, that's it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I'm always cooking very slow so the eggs have enough time to process their separation.

I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.

There is no bad food, only bad cooks.

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

"We'll need 2 cups of rice and 6 cups of water."
"I'm not sure if I've got that many cups."

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

My cooking is very simple, so I don't really use machines at all. A knife, cutting board, frying pan and strainer are my essentials.

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.

When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

A favorite cooking method? I'm a fan of all of them. Anything that gets a pile of random ingredients into a cruelty-free dish works for me.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.

You don't come into cooking to get rich.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

You know the thing about good food? It brings folks together from all walks of life.

Everything in this room is eatable. Even I'm eatable. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.

Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change colour every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little darkred sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.

This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.

Michael: "Can we have him for supper?"
Sylvia: "Have him to stay for supper, Michael. We aren't cannibals."

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Why you care about small things? World very simple place. World only have two things: Things you can eat and things you no can eat.

I can’t walk by chocolate without eating it.

I've never been in love... But I imagine it's similar to the feeling you get when you see your waiter arriving with your food.

Legos are like chocolate... there's always room for some more.

When I see chocolate, I hear to voices in my head:

One says: "Eat it!"
The other one says: "Can't you listen? You're supposed to eat it!"

All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

I can't recall the food pyramid right now... how many servings of chocolate should I be eating today again?

As long as cocoa beans grow on trees, chocolate is a fruit for me.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

I've always got a sweet tooth. I have chocolate hidden in places that nobody knows about.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.