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- Joël Robuchon was born on April 7, 1945 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He was a writer, known for Bon appétit bien sûr (2000), Le grand échiquier (1972) and Champs-Elysées (1982). He died on August 6, 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Retired at 50 years old, as promised, to focus on handing over his knowledge to the younger generation of chefs.
- Named the "chef of the century" by the Gault et Millau cooking guide in 1990.
- He originally planned to become a priest. While in seminary, he found that he enjoyed cooking alongside the nuns in the kitchen. He became a chef apprentice at age 15.
- Great French chef who had 27 Michelin stars in his restaurants, he now has built a cuisine empire around the world.
- Was the world's most Michelin-starred chef.
- There is a very famous proverb that goes something like this, 'when an old man dies, a library burns down'. I have seen so many good chefs - some famous, some not - who have gone and, with them, a part of knowledge and tradition is lost and nobody can take it back. [referring to the cooking school he founded]
- I never try to marry more than three flavours in one dish. I like walking into a kitchen and knowing that the dishes are identifiable and the ingredients within them easy to detect.
- I owe everything to these mashed potatoes. Maybe it's a little bit of nostalgia, Proust's madeleines. Everyone has in his memory the mashed potatoes of his mother, the mashed potatoes of his grandmother. [referring to one of his most famous dishes]
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