born april known french born chef working britain brother albert opened later starred restaurant britain restaurant outside france hold stars period years followed brother chef england order open restaurant described modern restaurant cuisine inducted french orders received lifetime achievement awards different publications decorated period 1960s founded albert worked consultant companies years brother split business took inn handed son remains active food writer appeared television shows saturday kitchen family centric series legacy woman hour programme career born room grandfather specializing meat products moved paris family war father set taking family business father away family money shop closed prevent going bankrupt time turned father left family heard older brother albert chef followed field age fourteen apprentice belleville working seventy hour weeks tasks included making des course days albert found employment ended albert working british embassy paris chef joined chef embassy moved chef service albert moved england work served stationed palace versailles later posted overseas algeria awarded des nearly decided cooking opera singer instead followed albert london despite able speak english later recall people thought mad travelling england view fact considered state english cooking time horrific describing dark ages opened restaurant london opening party attended celebrities following week reportedly london eat brothers opened second restaurant launched catering business stars awarded inn restaurants win star number restaurants won stars time restaurants new location year restaurant awarded stars rating follow stars regained star level inn restaurant outside france hold stars period years founded albert annual competition select single chef send apprentice winner winners years included sat brothers split restaurant business following disagreement direction joint business albert took took inn consultant years celebrity cruises brothers catering company purchased albert retained consultant son currently runs inn having taken chef patron july announced permanently montana switzerland citing concerns state public safety britain owns house france television radio work spoken entertainment type cooking shows 1990s cooking cook won cook saying way people handle food crime don know basics little attention paid detail instead intent having joke involving food brothers bbc television early fan celebrity isn fond feels known wrong reasons brother albert appeared october good food channel aired series entitled legacy january featured albert sons appeared guest judge professionals alongside nephew saturday kitchen alongside son legacy awards brother called modern restaurant cuisine industry magazine described finest chef country awarded award previously won lifetime achievement award magazine compared albert beatles poll carried magazine brother albert voted influential country voted chef chef great number known trained brothers estimating half star holders britain come brother kitchen kitchen included awarded france member orders france inducted knight officer des arts des followed outside france honorary officer order british empire honorary doctor year military awards des personal life brother son named albert son years old wife divorced wife taking british born sisters france visit school holidays work decided age fourteen wanted chef like father met second wife set blind date apprentice sydney australia relationship credited opening door australian trained brothers
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