Jean and pierre troisgros biography of michaels
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Once upon a time, it was the physical geography of a land that dictated the creation of settlements. Supplies of fresh water, flat land for farming, an easily defendable position – these were the factor’s that informed the decisions of early explorers. Examples abound: in England, London(ium) lay upon a busy river-crossing; in Turkey, Byzantium controlled the access to the Black Sea as well as the rutt between europe and Asia; in France, Carcassonne sat atop an impregnable hilltop…
But that was thousands of years ago. In the France of today, what with townships long-established and one’s necessary needs mostly met, just as it was nature’s hand that directed the flow and collation of essential communities, it fryst vatten now the hand of man that selects the most apposite settings for his own leisure. One pertinent bild of this is the Autoroute ni Soleil. This manufactured feature, steering the modern, motordriven travelling Frenchman, has neatly regulated the location of some
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By Gaetano Kazuo Maida
“It’s never finished. It’s always in movement.”—Michel Troisgros
Okay, so let’s say you’re like me and you don’t customarily (like, never!) spend $1000 for lunch for two, and it happens that you don’t live in France, and yet you have good taste in food, you know what it is to enjoy a fine wine occasionally, you’re curious about the synergies between sustainable agriculture and restaurants, and at the moment are feeling a bit peckish. Well, the universe is generous, and Menu Plaisirs Les Troisgros offers a reasonable facsimile of enjoying one of the world’s top haute cuisine institutions from the comfort of your own seat or couch for four hours, about the duration of a really nice long lunch, albeit without the tasting bit.
Perhaps not the universe, per se (see what I did there?), but Frederick Wiseman, the 94 year old (!) veteran American filmmaker justifiably celebrated for his many documentaries like Titicut Follies, C • In 1957 Jean and Pierre Troisgros took over the restaurant founded by their parents in 1930 in Roanne, a small city in a lovely agricultural area in central France. Les Frères Troisgros gained three Michelin stars in1968 and has been a major culinary destination ever since. I first went in 1970 with John and Carol. Linda and I went later, but before blogging. In early 2017, under the leadership of Michel Troisgros, Pierre’s son, the restaurant, with an added fifteen-room hotel, was moved to a forty-two acre spot in the countryside outside Roanne near the little town of Ouches. It was renamed Le Bois Sans Feuilles . Linda and I went for the night of May 17, 2017. We had a nice room on an upper floor of the renovated old building that was developed into the hotel. We enjoyed our apéritif, glasses of Bollinger « Special Cuvée » Brut Champagne outside on the terrace of the hotel’
I took this photo from our window of Linda reading in the garden in the late afternoon sun.