Le Chef is seriously pissed off

French born in Vittel (la flotte) 1954. No 3 of four boys, grows up in small village, goes to mass on Sundays, little sh*t rest of the week. School holydays in grand-parents farm, did everything except milk the cows and drive the tractor. Comes 14 and « l’age bête » that lasted longer than expected. Numerous accidental head scars.1970 and cooking school, diplomas and vaguely thinking what a f***k! am I doin’ here ?..

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

Head Chef from the age of 18 in cocorico restaurants for the next 20 years,

Private-Personal Chef to Mick Jagger, Prince Khalid Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, millionaires/ billionaires businessmen, Lords & Ladies… that’s another 19years and 3/4. Or roughly 40 jobs, between 70 and 95 hours a week. Become an excel-lent photographer. Very proud Dad of two gorgeous daughters, Jessica and Poppy, living with their Mums. Many memorable relationships, a few disastrous ones. Just enough to have become a good Buddhist for the past 30 years. Not in a monastery, though. Amen.

Sexy girls are still my favourite dish. Me very greedy.