Alain Ducasse cooked up quite a gratin in honor of Paul Bocuse this past weekend in Monte Carlo, part of a three-day homage to the 81-year-old master dubbed "Le Feu Sacre," and almost 100 chefs turned up—including Daniel Boulud, Charlie Trotter, Ferran Adria, Jacques Chibois, Alain Senderens, Juan Marie Arzak, Georges Blanc, and Tetsuya Wakuda. The highlight of the event was a buffet lunch in which each of 19 chefs prepared one of their specialties.
For his part, Ducasse defended the primacy of French cooking, saying, "Our cuisine is still there. Even if the world now draws its inspiration from other regions, the technique and professionalism of any great chef is still descended from the French tradition." He also announced several new projects, including a restaurant at London's Dorchester Hotel to open in September and the takeover and relaunch of Rech, a famous 1925-vintage seafood bistro in Paris. Ducasse's revamp of the Restaurant Jules Verne in the Eiffel Tower is slated for October.
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