My Life in Food
A Memoir
$55.97
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2023
Summary
In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we eat, cook and appreciate food in this country. It is no exaggeration to say that most of what makes our current culinary landscape so vibrant began with these two brothers and their ground-breaking restaurant, Le Gavroche.
Albert first arrived in England in the fifties, at a time of grey and brown food, with a nation still reeling from the effects of war and rat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474617765 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147461776X |
| Author: | Albert Roux |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 162mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
The man who installed gastronomy in Britain. Thank you, chef
The man who installed gastronomy in Britain. Thank you, chef – Gordon Ramsay
Working for the Roux family was the best training I did – Monica Galetti
Probably the greatest chef our country has ever seen – Marcus Wareing
About The Author
Albert Roux
Albert Roux was the godfather of modern British cooking. Born in rural France in 1935, he started his culinary career as an apprentice patissier in Paris at the age of fourteen, before coming to England in 1953. In 1967 Albert and his brother Michel opened Le Gavroche, the restaurant that revolutionised the British dining scene and the first three Michelin starred restaurant in the country. An inspirational figure, Albert was awarded an OBE, the Legion d’Honneur and a papal knighthood. On his death in January 2021, Gordon Ramsay, one of his proteges, mourned him as a ‘legend, the man who installed gastronomy into this country’.
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