Guy Savoy, Star Chef: "At the Age of 15, I Spent All My Summer Vacation Cooking at the Bar of the Public Garden"

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"I wouldn't have come here if..." Every week, "Le Monde" questions a personality about a decisive moment in its existence. The multi-toilet chef remembers the flavors of his childhood in the Bourgoin-Jallieu municipal garden where his parents worked.

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Guy Savoy, in Paris, on March 16, 2023. MATHIEU ZAZZO/PASCO At 9 a.m., in his Parisian restaurant, it already smells deliciously good. He, in an immaculate jacket, drinks a lemonade, attentive to describe precisely his profession. On two levels, just below, dozens of cooks, pastry chefs, apprentices do business in front of the stoves. Through the windows, we see the Louvre and, on the side, the Academy of Fine Arts, where Guy Savoy was inducted …