J'aime Paris Alain Ducasse

Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse challenges the clichéd image of French food as complicated and heavy. Here he goes back to basics and rediscovers the pleasures of simple French food based on healthy, locally sourced ingredients that are in season, without the fat and without the fuss. …

Brash, driven, and dazzlingly inventive, fourteen-star chef Alain Ducasse is a larger-than-life figure. At thirty-three, he was the youngest chef ever to be awarded three Michelin stars; and in 2005 he became the first chef in the world to win three stars for three restaurants, with a staggering total of fourteen stars spread across eight restaurants in three countries. He has mentored a generation of younger chefs who have introduced his cooking around the world and he has, quite simply, changed the face of traditional French cooking. …

Les Bistrots, Brasseries, et Restaurants de Tradition font partie de notre univers culturel et affectif. Lieux d'échange et de convivialité, ils sont les témoins d'un certain art de vivre et les interprètes de notre patrimoine culinaire. Chacun a en mémoire l'un de ces lieux chargé de souvenirs et de plaisir partagé. Alain Ducasse a choisi tout naturellement de consacrer à leur cuisine le troisième tome de son encyclopédie culinaire. Ce nouveau Grand Livre est structuré comme les deus premiers, autour de 90 produits, avec plus de 400 savoureuses recettes de nos terroirs.

The Go-Go-Goraguer sessions are a rare opportunity to discover what a potent jazz pianist Alain Goraguer was before he embarked on a new career as an arranger and a composer that would take him away from the realm of jazz. He would have been part of a great generation of French jazz pianists that includes fine stylists such as René Urtreger, Martial Solal, or Georges Arvanitas. The program is comprised of standards, songs from the French repertoire, and two originals. Classically trained, Goraguer's technique is beyond reproach, and his quite marvelous touch can be enjoyed on a wide range of material - from his tender version of "Darn That Dream" to a percussive reworking of "What Is This Thing Called Love?." Regardless of the tempo, his playing has a sparkling quality that does not fail to draw the listener in…