She spoke at a private dinner at Adour, the Alain Ducasse restaurant at the St.

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If you want to indulge, try sampling fine French cuisine created by chef Alain Ducasse at the 1-Michelin star Spoon.

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The concept is nothing new in Europe, where many of the top Michelin-starred eateries by the likes of Alain Ducasse and company are in grand hotels.

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For the future, Carlo Cracco does not dream about getting his third Michelin star, like his mentor Marchesi, or opening restaurants all over the world, like Alain Ducasse.

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Drawing influence from 100-year-old recipes that have become the hallmark of Benoit, Alain Ducasse and Chef Philippe Bertineau have composed a menu that celebrates traditional French cuisine with modern technique, seasonal ingredients, and a deft hand.

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And while the top 10 includes familiar picks like Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester in London and Guy Savoy in Paris, it also includes surprises like Aqua in Wolfsburg, Germany and JB in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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This is the crowning event of the festival, which was attended by 60, 000 people who mingled with all manner of famous chefs, from Food Network stars Guy Fieri and Paula Deen to highbrow pan-rattlers Alice Waters and Alain Ducasse.

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Alain Ducasse has opened a sumptuous hotel, L'Andana, here, in a 16th-century former hunting lodge of the grand duke of Tuscany, and there is a small but impressive echelon of destination restaurants--like Caino, in the medieval village of Montemerano, and Ristorante Bracali, in a former corner tobacco store near Massa Marittima--where local chefs are rising to Michelin stardom by (profoundly) rethinking local dishes.

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Another of the best food festivals you can attend in this country, it will be held May 10-13, 2012 for the sixth consecutive year, spanning multiple resort venues in Vegas and featuring a star-studded A-list of chefs, like Todd English, Nobu Matsuhisa, Michael Mina, Rick Moonen, and a quartet of revered Michelin 3-star chefs: Alain Ducasse, Guy Savoy, Julian Serrano and Jean Georges Vongerichten.

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