Paul Bocuse
French chef (1926–2018)
- Fame58.2
- Momentum2.7
- Chefs rank#24
FranceHe held three Michelin stars for 55 consecutive years — longer than anyone in history — and gave his name to the world's fiercest chef competition. Lyon's Monsieur Paul rewrote French cooking twice: once by launching nouvelle cuisine, once by calling out its own excesses.
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Paul Bocuse was born 11 February 1926 and came up through culinary apprenticeship in Pollionnay under Eugénie Brazier and the legendary Mères of Lyon, after fighting to liberate France. He took over the family restaurant, L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges, and from 1965 it held three Michelin stars for a record 55 years. Bocuse became the face of nouvelle cuisine — lighter, sharper, obsessed with pristine ingredients — a term Henri Gault coined to describe the food he and other top chefs prepared for the Concorde's maiden flight in 1969. But he also turned on the movement's drift toward empty pla…
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