Hello everyone, you are listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. This is a show all

about Paris and France. And if you're brand new, if you're listening for the first time, I've got to say,

you came for a pretty good episode. This is a good one. You're going to hear me interviewing

Amory Bourourourne. I don't know how my pronunciation is, you'll be the judge in a few minutes.

He is the executive chef at the Alain-Ducasse restaurant of the legendary hotel, Le Maurice.

And when I say a legendary hotel and I talk up this restaurant, believe me, this is the real deal.

This is two Michelin stars.

In fact, I did a little bit of research. I looked up the menu and I'm going to read a bit

from it in a second. In fact, I'll tell you a bit more about our guests in a second.

But first, let me paint a picture. This is the same hotel where I booked a room and we stayed

and that was detailed in the last episode. So you can go

back and listen to that to get a little bit of taste of the hotel that I'm talking about. It's in

central Paris on Rue de Rivoli, one of the most beautiful streets right next to the Tullerie.

And well, when I stayed there, I asked the staff, the sort of press team of the hotel,

if I could interview the head chef because I've always wanted to interview one of these top

parish chefs.

And they said, not only did they say yes, but they said, do you want to talk to him in the

kitchen?

So you guys are going to join me in the kitchen very shortly.

I want to say this before I forget, knowing that this would be a kind of a special episode,

I hired a photographer who followed us around for the interview. So all the things that you're

going to hear us describing as we're walking around, tasting food in the kitchen, when we're

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