S13 Ep1: Pierre Koffmann: One of the Greatest Chefs of All Time

Desert Island Dishes

Food, Arts, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Hello! We are back with a brand new season! I missed you all!

My guest today is Pierre Koffman.

Often described as one of the greatest chefs of all time. A living legend.

He has been a chef for over 50 years. His list of achievements are basically too long to mention. Born in the South West of France in 1948 he didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming a chef and yet he has become the “chef of chefs, the chef all other chefs look up to”.

Combining a rustic gutsiness with haute cuisine, Pierre Koffmann knows how to combine tastes and flavours like no one else. He cooks the kind of food he likes to eat; the food of the French countryside and of his grandparent’s farmhouse kitchen in rural Gascony. He is one of only a handful of chefs to have achieved three Michelin stars.

While Pierre is renowned for his cooking expertise, after mastering his skills in the kitchen for 50 years, he is also known for his mentoring and championing of new talent in the industry.

Pierre has famously said: "There is no secret, it’s all about working hard, using few but the right ingredients but enjoying food. You have to be in love with cooking, it is not just a job, it’s a passion, you must enjoy eating and oh you also need a bit of luck."

Thank you to Japan Centre for sponsoring this episode. Definitely check out their website which you can find at www.japancentre.com and use the discount JAPAN10OFF

Thank you to our season sponsor Cooks Matches. Find them on Instagram @cooksmatches and head to their website www.cooksmatches.co.uk to find out more.

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0:00.0	This episode of Desert Island Dishes is sponsored by Japan Center. I've genuinely been a fan of
0:06.5	Japan Center for years, ever since I discovered them on Regent Street, and there began my lifelong love
0:13.3	of Asembe. So this is a very exciting partnership for me. In case you guessed from my name, my husband is also half Japanese,
0:22.4	so Japanese food is a really big part of our life and we shop at Japan Center all the time.
0:28.4	To give you a bit of background in case you aren't familiar, Japan Center is the UK's
0:33.4	favorite Japanese food hall. They've been around since 1976. In a nutshell, they're a supermarket,
0:41.4	bursting with authentic Japanese food and drink. They have an amazing deli, which serves really
0:47.6	brilliant Japanese sushi and hot food. They have a fishmonger, butcher, a bakery, which makes handmade and hard to find Japanese
0:57.3	baked breads and desserts. So really, they have everything you could ever hope to find.
1:02.9	If you're in London, the good news is that they now have three locations. So if you haven't
1:08.1	been, you really must go. There's one in Westfield, London, Leicester Square and Westfield, Stratford City.
1:16.0	If you're not in London, do not worry because their online store is absolutely brilliant.
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1:29.6	So think of it as your one-stop shop to get amazing.
1:33.8	Gyoza, matcher, dashy, mochi.
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1:38.3	Their noodle selection is, in my opinion, second to none.
1:42.4	But truly, if any of this sounds up your street, which if you're
1:45.9	listening to this, I think it will be, go and have a look at their website, japancentr.com, and have a
1:51.8	browse, because if it isn't already somewhere that you shop regularly, it really should be.
1:57.4	They're offering Desert Island Dishes listeners a 10% discount. Just use the code
2:02.6	Japan 10 off. That's the number 10, but I'll put it in the show notes. Thank you so much
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