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Michel Roux - BBC Goodfood Show Summer 2023 Preview
BBC Good Food Show Summer - 15th - 18th June 2023 - NEC Birmingham - Show Interviews
English - June 04, 2023 08:00 - 12 minutes - 8.73 MBHome & Garden Leisure bbc good food shows nec birmingham good food podcasts gfs winter summer james martin nadiya hussain ainsley harriott michel roux Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Michel Roux was born in 1960 in Pembury, Kent, where his father Albert Roux worked as a private chef for the Cazalet family. His earliest food memories are the smells of the Fairlawne kitchen – pastry, sugar caramelizing and stews – where he played under the table while his father and mother Monique prepared the meals.
After deciding to follow in his father’s footsteps, he left school at 16 for the first of several challenging apprenticeships at Maître Patissier, Hellegouarche in Paris from 1976 to 1979. He was then Commis de Cuisine at Alain Chapel’s signature restaurant at Mionay near Lyon, Michel’s biggest influence. His military service was spent in the kitchens at the Elysée Palace at the time of Presidents Giscard d’Estaing and François Mitterrand. He also spent time at Boucherie Lamartine and Charcuterie Mothu in Paris, and the Gavers Restaurant in London.