Le Chef Is Seriously Pissed Off

2017.©DENIS BOURG. Le chef isseriouslypissed off.

French born in Vittel, Vosges, eastern France, 1954. No 3 of 4 boys, grows up in small village, mass on Sundays, little sh*t rest of the week. Every school holyday in grandparents farm, did everything except milk cows & drive tractor. Comes 14 and 'l'âge bête' lasting longer than expected. Numerous head scars. 1970-72 cooking school in Contrexéville, two diplomas thinking 'What a f***k am I doin' here?...' 

Head Chef at 18, French restaurants next 20 years. 

Full time chef: Brittany, Alps, Cannes, Vosges, Switzerland, French & Dutch West Indies Boston, Washington DC, Cape Cod & the Kennedys, Maryland, Paris, Ireland, Ibiza, London (37 years!). 

42 jobs in all. 70 to 100 hrs/week. 

Personal Chef to Mick Jagger, Prince Khalid Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, bil-lionaires businessmen, Lords & Ladies... Another 20 years for the hyper wealthy. 

My favourite dish : young women.

Have become an excellent photographer, my formidable passion for the visual and all beauty. 

Very proud Dad of two gorgeous daughters, Jessica & Poppy, living with their Mums. Many memorable relationships, a few disastrous ones. Enough to have become a good Buddhist for the past 30 years. 

Not in a monastery, though. Amen.