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Le Saint Géran’s “10 Years, 10 Dishes, 10 Wines” package is the 10th (obviously) anniversary celebration of the resort’s high-end restaurant, Spoon des Iles, where world-famous Chef Alain Ducasse is the executive chef and has hand-picked the menu, the staff and even the table settings. The restaurant is named after Ducasse’s original Spoon restaurant outside Paris (and just for you history dorks, we also discovered that Le Saint Géran is named after a famous shipwreck that occurred nearby!). The special package is a three-day weekend hosted by Ducasse himself, and runs from December 6-8.

For those three days, guests will be able to watch Ducasse in action as he joins the restaurant staff for private cooking classes, and in preparing a huge gala dinner. The menu will include such Mauritius specialties as palm hard ceviche and Lapsang Souchong soup, all paired with wines specially chosen by sommelier Jerome Lucas.

If you can’t make it for that weekend, the resort will be extending a special food-themed package for travel from November 20-December 20, 2009, that includes a private cooking lesson with Spoon’s head chef, Romain Meder (with lunch), a dinner at Spoon des Iles, a cooking hat and apron, and a Spoon cookbook signed by Alain Ducasse. The package will cost around $285 depending on the exchange rate. Unfortunately, it does not include accommodations…which start at about 1015 euros (about $1500) for a junior suite.