Michel Roux: Cooking for presidents, kitchen battles and continuing the family legacy
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
Global
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
One of Britain’s most celebrated French chefs, Michel Roux Jr is restaurant royalty. Born into the legendary Roux family, his father and uncle, Albert and Michel Roux Snr founded Le Gavroche, the first British restaurant to earn three Michelin stars.
Determined to follow in their footsteps, Michel left school at 16 to begin a pastry apprenticeship in Paris and later trained under the legendary Alain Chapel. Despite his father’s attempts to bring him into the family business, Michel initially resisted working at Le Gavroche. When he finally joined, it proved to be extremely tough but rewarding. In this episode, Michel talks about growing up at Fairlawne - grand country estate, the pressures of living up to his family's legacy and why he's left behind his "angry chef" persona.
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| 0:32.1 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:42.6 | Yeah. Global Player Original podcast. Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time with interesting people than I would ever get to do on the radio. |
| 0:51.2 | Michelle Rue, welcome and thank you. It's lovely to see you. Do you know, I once |
| 0:54.9 | showed a picture of you to a barber and asked him to give me your beard. |
| 0:58.6 | No shit. I did. I did. Really? You can swear it's a podcast. You can say, yeah, it didn't work. |
| 1:04.0 | I've obviously got a different shape face or something like that because he did it. And that doesn't |
| 1:07.8 | look anything like Michelle Rue. Oh dear. But you are. |
| 1:11.2 | That's my claim to fame now. Yeah. You could have that for nothing. But I suppose it speaks to the fact that you are probably more recognisable now than you were when you were running kitchens like doing the 80 hour weeks and stuff like that. |
| 1:26.4 | Yes. I mean, my first foray in the TV world was with the original master chef with Lloyd Grossman. |
| 1:35.4 | Yeah, of course. |
| 1:35.8 | So used to get the odd invite as a guest chef. |
| 1:40.9 | And I've never really been afraid of a a camera especially when I'm talking about stuff |
| 1:46.9 | that I know well hopefully know a lot about and I've never courted television never gone out with |
| 1:52.9 | an agent in fact I'm not not keen on agents and knocked on people's doors TV isn't saying look |
| 1:58.1 | I want to do this I want to do that so they came and got that. So they came and got me. Why did they come and get me? |
| 2:01.6 | Because I'm a, hopefully, a successful chef. |
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