Jeremiah Talks about

YOU CAN TELL A LOT ABOUT A PERSON WHEN THEY ARE COOKING, but when the chef is Alain Ducasse, preconceptions fly out the window. You might expect that the world’s most famous chef—who has restaurants in several countries and a travel schedule that would devastate any secretary of state—would have only minutes to spare for our cooking session together. But the day I cooked with Ducasse in New York, there was not a hint of jet lag—or of trying to shave minutes off the real time needed for cooking a dish perfectly just so that he could get on with the rest of his schedule.