“In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and th...” — Alain Ducasse Quote

“In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.”

“Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook.”

“My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, 'Garden, Papa!' and then he eats what he picks.”

“Most craft is, you know, terrible, absolutely terrible, so I don't like the word, or the word 'artisan' either.”

“TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.”

“Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.”