Ducasse's Mediterranean precision cooking
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Ducasse's cooking is rooted in the Mediterranean sun — Provence, the Côte d'Azur, Italy, Monaco — but executed with a level of systematic precision that transformed regional cooking into reproducible haute cuisine. His breakthrough was proving that Mediterranean simplicity (olive oil, tomato, basil, fish, garlic, thyme) could achieve three-Michelin-star level when every element was controlled: the exact ripeness of the tomato, the precise moment a fish is cooked, the specific olive oil for each application, the temperature at which garlic releases its sweetness without bitterness. He systematised what had been intuitive, making excellence teachable and reproducible across 30+ restaurants worldwide.
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