GOOD TASTE

Having lunch with Alain Ducasse in one of his beautiful Parisian restaurants is like playing golf with Tiger Woods or discussing politics with Winston Churchill or attending a reading by Mark Twain John Grisham A memoir and manifesto from the world s most Michelin starred chef Alain Ducasse with introductions by internationally renowned writer Jay McInerney and chef Clare Smyth At twelve years old Alain Ducasse had never been to a restaurant Less than fifteen years later he received his first Michelin star Today he is one of just two chefs to have been awarded twenty one stars Now for the very first time Ducasse shares a lifetime of culinary inspirations and passions in a book that is part memoir and part manifesto Good Taste takes us on a journey from his childhood where he picked mushrooms with his grandfather on a farm in Les Landes to setting up groundbreaking schools and restaurants across the world He is now taking off his chef s whites and passing on what he knows to the next generation