Friday 25 Lifestyle | Feature Friday, September 25, 2020

In this file photo French chefs Paul Bocuse (center right) and (center left) pose at In this file photo taken on July 27, 1983 French chefs from Region Rhone-Alpes (from left to right) Paul Pavillon Ledoyen in Paris, with the new promoted French chefs from Guide Rouge 2002. — AFP photos Bocuse, Pierre Troisgros, Jacques Pic, Georges Blanc and , try to fly on a hot air balloon- ing, in Alpe d’Huez.

ierre Troisgros, the legendary tronomes. The same year the Gault & gic stopping off point on the National lar, most of which came from the PFrench chef and head of the Millau guide proclaimed their hotel 7 road that led from Paris to the neighboring Burgundy region. In the country’s greatest gastronomic restaurant the best in the world, an Mediterranean beaches. early 1970s, the brothers were at the dynasty, died on Wednesday aged honour again bestowed by the Zagat vanguard of the movement to lighten 92, his restaurant told AFP. The chef guide in 2007. “We have a heavy Born to cook sauces and give vegetables a more and his brother Jean helped found heart this evening,” tweeted the Paul Pierre Troisgros and his brother starring position on the plate. The the movement, with Bocuse restaurant near Lyon, found- Jean picked up their first cooking les- trend would later be dubbed “nou- their signature salmon with sorrel ed by Troisgros’ friend, who was sons from their mother Marie while velle cuisine” (new cooking), with the dish copied the world over. Troisgros known at the “Pope of French cui- their father Jean-Baptiste ran the din- Troisgros also among the first French is the third great French chef to have sine”. Although Pierre Troisgros had ing room of their Hotel Moderne. With chefs to travel to Japan and be influ- died in two years, with his life-long long stepped back from the stove, he Jean, he then served his apprentice- enced by the way fish was cooked friend Paul Bocuse and the world’s was a jovial presence at the family’s ship in some of the best restaurants there. Troisgros’ cooking was known most starred chef, Joel Robuchon, hotel until they quit their ancestral of the era, forming an enduring bond for simplicity and creativity, two char- both passing away in 2018. The restaurant opposite Roanne’s train with Bocuse when they worked acteristics that rarely go together in called him “a giant station three years ago for the neigh- together in Paris as young chefs. the highly competitive world of haute who was the equal of Bocuse, with boring village of Ouches. Their father called the brothers back cuisine. Jean Troisgros died of a whom he revolutionized cooking. The new restaurant, which has home in 1953 to take over the busi- heart attack while playing tennis in In this file photo taken on “His name will continue to shine held onto its three Michelin stars, is ness, and they won their first Michelin 1983. Pierre Troisgros’ two other chil- October 22, 2000 French chef bright,” it added. now run by Michel and his son star two years later. dren are also both restaurateurs, son Pierre Troisgros, owner of the Troisgros and his son Michel have Cesar. He is the fourth generation of The trio formed a formidable team, Claude in and daughter Anne- Troisgros restautant in Roanne, held the maximum three Michelin the Troisgros clan to preside over the with Pierre in charge of the cooking Marie in Bordeaux, southwest poses at La Sorbonne in Paris. stars since 1968 — making the kitchen, which wowed its first cus- and Jean the sauces, while their . — AFP provincial town of Roanne in central tomers in 1930 when his great grand- father took care of the service and France a place of pilgrimage for gas- parents took over a hotel on a strate- the restaurant’s renowned wine cel-

In this file photo taken on April 4, 2006 French chefs Pierre Troisgros (left) and Paul In this file photo taken on January 21, 2003 (from left to right) Paul Bocuse, Marc Veyrat, Pierre Troisgros and Michel Bocuse (right) talk in the courtyard in Villefranche-sur-Saone where they attended Guerard pose during the tribute awarded to the French Chefs, founders of the “Nouvelle Cuisine” on the occasion of the the Georges Duboeuf Company trial. First International Gastronomy Summit held in Madrid.