Table Talk: Michel Roux Jr

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Michel Roux Jr. is an English-French chef and is the chef patron of Le Gavroche, the first restaurant in the UK to received one, two and then three Michelin stars. Earlier this year it was announced that Le Gavroche will close its doors in January.

On the podcast, he recalls how his father would hand churn vanilla ice cream, reveals his fondness for both traditional French custard and English packet custard, and tells Liv and Lara why Le Gavroche is closing.

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0:25.2	Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectator's Food and Drink podcast. I'm Olivia Potts.
0:31.4	And I'm Laura Prendergast. And today we are delighted to be joined by Michelle Rooz Jr.
0:35.9	Michelle is an English-French chef and is the chef-patron of La Gavroche,
0:39.5	the first UK restaurant to be awarded one, two and then three Michelin Stars.
0:44.4	Earlier this year, it was announced that La Gavroche will close from January
0:47.7	to give a better work-life balance, and we are delighted to have Michelle with us today.
0:52.4	Welcome to Table Talk.
0:53.5	Hello there, great to Michelle with us today. Welcome to Table Talk. Hello there.
0:54.3	Great to be with you today.
0:55.4	Michelle, we always start at the same place with our guests by asking,
0:58.4	what are your earliest memories of food?
1:01.1	Oh, wow.
1:02.3	Yeah, yeah.
1:02.9	Earliest memories of food.
1:04.1	And they are so important.
1:05.7	Very, very important and sometimes can be quite poignant.
1:08.7	My first memory of food would be, I guess, I was around six years old, maybe even less, actually, five or six years old.
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