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I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.


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ALAIN BADIOU It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all...
ALAIN DUCASSE I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interes...
ALAIN DUCASSE Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dinin...
ALAIN DUCASSE In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it fo...
ALAIN DUCASSE If I'm a great artisan of the kitchen, it's because I don't buy my sauces.
ALAIN DUCASSE TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.
ALAIN DUCASSE You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray any...
ALAIN DELON If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virg...
ALAIN DUCASSE I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the math...
ALAIN BADIOU The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions su...
ALAIN ASPECT It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the ...
ALAIN DUCASSE . . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imag...
ALAIN LOCKE I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet p...
ALAIN DUCASSE Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how...
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