The "real" Alain Coumont, chef-founder of Le Pain Quotidien, in his futuristic kitchen. | Photos courtesy of Le Pain Quotidien In the time since Alain Coumont founded Le Pain Quotidien in Brussels in 1990, the bakery-café chain has amassed more than 10,000 recipes—many of which Coumont developed. Now through the magic of artificial intelligence, software company November Five has harnessed the chef-founder’s culinary expertise into a tool called Alain.AI, creating what amounts to Coumont’s “digital twin.” Alain.AI not only can access any of those 10,000 recipes, it can develop new recipes based on the brand’s culinary traditions, adapting them to local flavors, seasonal ingredients and dietary preferences. Despite a bankruptcy filing in 2020 and the closure of many U.S. and U.K. locations during and after the pandemic, Belgium-based Le […]
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