Christian Millau Obituary

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In 1969, Christian Millau, who has died aged 88, founded, with his business partner, Henri Gault, a monthly culinary magazine, Le Nouveau Guide Gault-Millau. Three years later it became an annual guide – Gault & Millau – and challenged the supremacy of the red Michelin guide to the restaurants of France.

 

The pair had spotted a tendency among younger French chefs that they baptised nouvelle cuisine.

 

Full obit from the Guardian.

[Martin Fisher]

 

[Anna N]

 My favorite piece from the aforementioned article:

 

"And why, I asked, did he think that nouvelle cuisine needed to be invented? “Central heating and the internal combustion engine. Humans no longer need the same number of calories just to stay warm and get to their work.”