French food has been long known around the world for its incredible flavors and luxurious textures. Today, there are many highly influential chefs cooking in the world of French cuisine. These people, including the three highlighted below, have made innovative changes in the long and proud tradition of French fine dining.

3 Prominent Modern-Day Chefs in French Food

1. Alain Passard

Alain Passard is from the Brittany region and owns the three Michelin star French restaurant, L’Arpege, in Paris. He is known for using seasonal and organically grown produce in all of his French food; his restaurant gets its fresh ingredients from three kitchen gardens around the city. His dishes are unique in that they center around vegetables with only small amounts of meat on the plate.

2. Dominique Ansel

Dominique Ansel is a well-known pastry chef who owns the Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York City. He has made dramatic waves in French baking, though he is most famous for creating the Cronut, which is a hybrid of a donut and a croissant. He’s also invented other popular pastries like frozen s’mores, cookie shots, and Dominique's kouign amann (DKA).

3. Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Jean-Georges Vongerichten was born in Alsace, France, and now lives in New York. He commands more than 30 restaurants throughout Las Vegas, London, Paris, Shanghai, and Tokyo. He owes much of his international renown to his French fusion style, for which he takes a lot of inspiration from Asian cooking and ingredients.

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