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Here's a question of the moment: Would you rather eat at one of French chef Alain Ducasse's pair of three-star restaurants or spend who knows how many hours preparing the spit-roasted lobster with caramelized salsify and almonds from his new cookbook, Ducasse: Flavors of France (Artisan; 288 pages; $50)? And would you rather dine at one of Jean-Georges Vongerichten's New York City food temples or make the apple confit from Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef (Broadway; 224 pages; $35)--a recipe that involves cutting 15 peeled Granny Smith apples...
...those were trick questions. Buying books--or fancy products--stamped with the names of the world's finest chefs is just the latest form of gourmet porn. The consumer gets to fantasize that with aids like a dollop of Jean-Georges's special tamarind paste or one of Ducasse's $275 copper saucepans, one can whip oneself and one's guests to the heights of culinary ecstasy. And for the chefs--brash, dashing and at the pinnacle of their artistic careers--their extra-kitchen activities are about creating, and extending, their brand names in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Being...
...students when he has just one office hour a month for all 6,500 of us. Doesn't anyone at this place care? There is one administrator who bothers to visit all 13 dining halls when he wants to know what students think: Harvard Dining Services Executive Chef Michael Miller. If Miller can put that much effort into getting our feedback on steak bombs and popcorn chicken, shouldn't Wilson be doing at least as much for the future of Radcliffe...
More likely, however, is the explanation of Executive Chef Michael Miller, who has stated that the software program used to calculate the nutritional information made printing errors and transposed numbers for three days until it was fixed. "We don't guarantee that all the information is absolutely correct--it would be just too dificult for us to do that for a myriad of reasons," Miller said. "This information is just a guide to help you make decisions about what you want...
Jacques Pepin is a chef, author and host of the popular PBS television series Jacques Pepin's Kitchen: Cooking with Claudine