The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine

The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine

by Rudolph Chelminski

368 pages· 2005· ISBN 9781592401079
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A portrait of the award-winning master chef who in spite of prestigious achievements took his own life in 2003 traces Bernard Loiseau's rise from an ambitious teenager who worked in the kitchen of the famed Troisgros brothers to the head of the Michelin star-winning La Cote d'Or, describing his relationships with staff and clientele and the toll taken on his health by his self-doubt and critics.

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