A Life in the Kitchen: Recipes and Reminiscences from a Master Chef by Michel Roux Jr.

  • Roast chicken (page 22)

    from A Life in the Kitchen: Recipes and Reminiscences from a Master Chef A Life in the Kitchen by Michel Roux Jr.

    • Categories: Main course
    • Ingredients: whole chicken; yoghurt; onions; carrots; celery; bulb fennel; new garlic
    • Accompaniments: Pommes Anna
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  • ISBN 10 0753827220
  • ISBN 13 9780753827222
  • Published Feb 02 2012
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 320
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Group
  • Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Publishers Text

The Roux family is the most influential family associated with food in Britain. Through their various restaurants (Le Gavroche, Waterside Inn, Brasserie Roux) and catering services they have trained many of Britain's top chefs.

Albert and Michel Sr brought French high cuisine to Britain in the sixties, much of the produce being brought twice weekly from France by Michel's mother in the family car. Michel grew up in an environment of respect for fine food and ingredients, of never settling for second best, and of traditional French family excursions to find wild food. He tells the story of what it was like to grow up as part of this close-knit family.

He left school at 16 to start his first apprenticeship with Maitre Patissier Hellegourarche in Paris. He then worked with Alain Chapel at Mionnay before doing his mililtary service at the Elysee Palace cooking for Presidents Giscard d'Estaing and Francois Mitterand. After a stint cooking at the Mandarin Hotel in Hong Kong and catering in London, he took over the running of Le Gavroche in 1994.

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