Alain Ducasse to launch new education initiative

Chef Alain Ducasse is to launch a new education initiative to teach about the "DNA of French cuisine".

Ducasse aims to teach "thousands" about French cuisine and its various techniques by 2020.

The courses will take place at existing cookery schools around the world, with a main focus on China and Canada through partnerships and at Ducasse's existing culinary schools.

A new cookery school is currently being built in Paris, which will join Ducasse's portfolio which includes the Ecole de Cuisine Alain Ducasse in Ranelagh, France, and Manila, Philippines; the Ducasse Institute Argenteuil, Paris; and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Pâtisserie in the Chateau of Montbarnier.

Ducasse said: "It's very important for me to share the knowledge, to pass it onto the next generation. It's one of the key values of my company and is close to my heart. In another it's almost an obsession to share what I've learnt, so that the knowledge is not lost and can be transmitted, and it's very, very important.

"After the focus on education I'll be focusing on chocolate. We have a pastry school in Paris [Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Pâtisserie] and we want to level that up. Followed of course by new restaurants."

The next restaurant will launch in 2018 in Tokyo, in Japan. Ducasse calls it a "pret-a-porter version" of his three-Michelin-starred flagship restaurant in Paris, but offering a more accessible version of the food with less sugar, salt, fat, less meat, sustainable fish, vegetables and grains.

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