Michel Roux
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Michel Roux, OBE (born 19 April 1941), also known as Michel Roux Snr., is a French-born chef and restaurateur who works in the United Kingdom.
He and his brother Albert opened Le Gavroche, later to open the first three Michelin starred restaurant in the United Kingdom, and The Waterside Inn, the first restaurant outside France to hold three actors for a period of 25 years, were founded in Le Gavroche. Roux converted his brother into a pastry chef and then moved to England in order to open their first restaurant.
Roux has been inducted into several French orders and has been named as the "godfathers of modern restaurant cuisine in the United Kingdom" together, and has been named in multiple French publications.
He was decorated during a period of National Service for France in the 1960s. He founded the Roux Brothers Scholarship alongside Albert in 1984 and has worked as a consultant for companies like British Airways and Celebrity Cruises throughout the years.
Roux purchased the Waterside Inn, which he handed over to his son, Alain, in 2002 after he and his brother split the company in 1986.
He has been writing on television shows including Saturday Kitchen, MasterChef, and Roux's family-centric film, The Roux Legacy, as well as on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour program.
Early life
Michel Roux was born in Charolles, Saône-et-Loire, in a room above his grandfather's charcuterie (a delicatessen specializing in meat products). After not taking over the family's business in Charolles, he and his family returned to Paris after the war, where his father Michel established his own charcuterie. His father mistook all of the family's money, and the shop was closed to prevent it from going bankrupt. Roux's father had left the family by the time Roux turned ten and was not heard from again.
Personal life
Michel Roux was Albert Roux's brother. Michel Roux had a son named Alain Roux, but Albert Roux's son, Michel Roux, was named Michel Roux. Roux and his wife divorced Alain, leaving his wife and his two children to France when Alain was ten years old. Alain would visit during the school holidays and work with Michel in the kitchens, and he decided at the age of fourteen that he wanted to be a chef like his father.
After being arranged on a blind date with her by former apprentice Leigh Stone-Herbert in Sydney, Australia, Roux married Robyn Joyce (1984-2017). The Roux brothers' relationship has been blamed for opening the door to Australian chefs being trained.
Michel Roux died on the night of 11 March 2020, aged 78, in Bray, Berkshire, following an iliopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Career
Roux's older brother Albert had already become a patissier (pastry chef), and Roux followed him into this field at the age of 14. He started as an apprentice to Camille Loyal in Belleville, and spent seventy-hour weeks. Roux's duties at the pâtisserie included making up to sixty galettes des rois in the course of three days for Epiphany. When Albert's apprenticeship came to an end, he found Roux in a new role. Roux joined Albert as the ambassador for the Embassy in Paris as a sous chef. In Philippe de Rothschild's service, he went from there to become a chef, but Albert moved to England to work there.
Roux served in France between 1960 and 1962. He was first stationed at the Palace of Versailles but later moved to Béchar, Algeria. He was given the Médaille commémorative des opérations de sûret de maintien de l'ordre en Afrique du Nord.
Roux had intended to retire from cooking to become an opera performer, but instead, followed Albert to London, despite not being able to speak English. People would later remark that he was mad for flying there in light of the fact that English cooking at the time was horrible.
The brothers opened Le Gavroche in Lower Sloane Street, London, in 1967. Celebrities such as Charlie Chaplin and Ava Gardner attended the first party. Chaplin was reportedly escorted around London for the next week so he could dine there. The brothers opened the Waterside Inn in Bray, Berkshire, in 1972, and opened a catering company.
Both Le Gavroche and the Waterside Inn were first recognized in the United Kingdom in 1974, and both Roux restaurants were among them when a number of restaurants won two Michelin stars for the first time in 1977. Le Gavroche opened in 1982 in Mayfair and became the first restaurant to be rewarded with three Michelin stars in the United Kingdom in the same year. The Waterside Inn was given the same rating in 1985, but Le Gavroche went back to two actors in 1993 and hasn't recovered to a three-star role. The Waterside Inn was the first restaurant outside of France to have hosted three Michelin stars for a period of 25 years.
Albert and Michel established the Roux Brothers Scholarship in 1984. It's an annual competition to select a single chef to send out as an apprentice. Andrew Fairlie was the first winner of the contest, and Sat Bains (1999) and Simon Hulstone (2003) were among the winners.
Following a dispute over the direction that their joint ventures should take, the brothers split their restaurant business in 1986; Albert took Le Gavroche; Michel took the Waterside Inn. Michel was a consultant to British Airways from 1983 to 2003, as well as for Celebrity Cruises from 1990. Compass Group acquired the Roux brothers' catering business in 1993, with Albert retained as a consultant.
Alain Roux, Roux's uncle, now runs the Waterside Inn in Bray, having taken over as chef patron in 2002.
Roux revealed in July 2008 that he would return to Crans-Montana, Switzerland, citing questions about the country's public safety. On the Cote d'Azur, he also owned a vineyard and house.
Roux has been a consultant reviewing and authorizing all recipes since 2014 with Bakedin, a British baking company.
Roux condemned television shows such as the 1990s cooking competition show Can't Cook, Won't Cook, out of town, saying that "the way these people cook food is a crime." They don't even know the basics. Little attention is paid to detail. Rather, they are keen on having a giggle and a parody. They can do this without using food." In the early eighties, the Roux brothers appeared on BBC television show At Home with the Roux Brothers.
On September 26, 1986, Roux and his brother Albert appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs together. In January 2012, The Good Food channel broadcast a five-part series titled The Roux Legacy, which starred both brothers, as well as their sons Michel Jr. and Alain. Roux appeared on MasterChef: The Professions alongside his nephew Michel Jr., and his son Alain on Saturday Kitchen.
Roux and his brother have been dubbed the "godfathers of modern restaurant cuisine in the United Kingdom," by hospitality industry journal Caterer and Hotelkeeper, while The Observer Food Monthly dubbed him "perhaps the best pastry chef this country has ever had" when he was named with the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. Roux had previously been recognized by Tatler magazine for his lifetime achievement in 2008. The Roux brothers were voted the country's best chefs in a survey conducted by Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine in 2003, and Michel Roux was named as the AA Chef's Chef in 2004.
Many well-known chefs have been trained by one or two of the Roux brothers, with Michel estimating in 2010 that "Half of the Michelin star-holders in Britain came from either my brother's kitchen or my kitchen." Gordon Ramsay, Marco Pierre White, and Pierre Koffman were among those who have been included.
Roux was given the Meilleur Ouvrier de France en Pâtisserie in 1976. He was a sponsor of numerous orders in France. In 1987, he was accepted as a Chevalier (knight) and later became a Mérite agricole as an officer. In 1990, he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts de Lettres, and the Legion of Honour was a continuation in 2004. He was named an Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2002 and was named an Honorary Doctor of Culinary Arts by the University of Rhode Island in the same year.