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Joel Robuchon Biography

The French chef and restaurateur Joel Robuchon was born in 1945 in Poitiers. Robuchon’s introduction to the culinary world began when he was quite young; by the time he was fifteen, he was working as an apprentice pastry chef at the Relais of Poitiers hotel, and by the time he was in his late twenties, he’d risen to the position of head chef at the hotel Concorde-Lafayette.

Throughout the 1980’s, Joel became world renowned for his culinary skills, most particularly for his own restaurant, Jamin, located in Paris. Robuchon is credited with having mentored and taught some of the era’s most notable chefs, including Eric Ripert and Gordon Ramsay. But by the mid 1990’s, concerned by the stressful nature of his job, Robuchon retired from full-time work, although he began to appear on various culinary television shows in Europe, including Cuisinez comme un grand chef and Bon appetite bien sur. He also continued to manage his various restaurants around the world, which include locations in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, Shanghai, Macau, Taipei, Tokyo, and throughout France. Robuchon’s restaurants have earned him multiple awards, including a total of twenty-eight Michelin stars, more than any other chef in the world at this time.

Joel Robuchon continues to be one of the era’s most celebrated chefs worldwide. He is also the author of eight cookbooks, the most recent of which, Food and Life, was co-authored by Dr. Nadia Volf and published in 2014.