Alain Ducasse

Alain Ducasse is a chef with – decades in the business, several restaurants under his belt, and an eponymous restaurant group with its hand in everything from actual restaurant operations to consultancy to cooking schools and beyond, he is a verifiable culinary force. However, he hasn’t lost sight of his chef’s core values—after all, they’re a huge part of what carried him this far. “Each good product, grown with love and respect, in its distinctive land, has an incomparable flavour,” he says. “Without which, a chef is nothing.”