If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes drown flavor ingredient
The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key. Alain Ducasse equilibriumfinalimportant Change image and share on social
At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard. Alain Ducasse backyardfrancegrow Change image and share on social
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. Alain Ducasse atmospherecountdesign share on social
I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That's cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself. Jean-Georges Vongerichten cookdishessential share on social
How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature. Clyde Tombaugh colorflowergreat share on social