2024-08-19 20:55:27
The last giant of modern gastronomy has died at the age of 91. Michel Guérard died in his sleep, during the night of Sunday August 18 to Monday August 19. “He had all the talents, the life of the heart, the ability to be innovative, intergenerational,” praised Alain Ducasse, the most starred chef in the world, to our newspaper. “Michel played the pleasure of the flavors as Mozart played the pleasure full of grace,” added their colleague Arnaud Donckele, while Gérald Passédat described “a mentor,” “elegant,” “wise,” “a pioneer ” but having “always kept the understanding. of facetiousness and humility. Marc Veyrat describes himself as “the greatest person in food not of the 20th century, but of the 21st!” A human being. Father of my soul. »
Former pastry chef turned to food, Michel Guérard became known in 1965 with his first restaurant, Pot-au-feu, in Asnières (Hauts-de-Seine). Then he married Christine Barthélémy, daughter of the founder of the Chaîne thermale du soleil, and lived with her in 1974. In Prés d’Eugénie, their hotel restaurant in Eugénie-les-Bains (Landes), he thought of a “healthy” kitchen. . Electronic tablets are becoming a social phenomenon.
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