Chef Michel Guérard, 91, who has held three Michelin stars since 1977, died during the night from Sunday to Monday, his entourage has learned, confirming information from France Bleu and Sud Ouest.
“Michel Guérard died at his home during the night“, Florence Pelizzari, secretary of the deceased, and the mayor of Eugénie-les-Bains (Landes), Philippe Brethes, told AFP, municipality of its famous restaurant “Eugenie’s Meadows“.
Chef Michel Guérard, who died at the age of 91, had three Michelin stars since 1977 and was the early inventor of a cuisine “slimming” which revolutionized world gastronomy.
The first French chef to grace the cover of Time Magazine, Michel Guérard was considered by some critics and many of his peers to be one of the most talented cooks of the 20th century.
In the 1970s, he revolutionized gastronomy with nouvelle cuisine, of which he was one of the leaders, and invented a new, tasty repertoire of “slimming cuisine” for gourmets concerned about their figure.
“If cooking were a Nobel Prize winner, Michel Guérard would be our first Nobel Prize winner.“, one of his students, Toulouse chef Michel Sarran, who has won two Michelin stars, told AFP two years ago.
