{"id":138864,"date":"2023-08-20T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/he-does-it-with-love-the-32-year-old-chef-taking-over-from-raymond-blanc-at-le-manoir\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T17:19:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T10:19:08","slug":"he-does-it-with-love-the-32-year-old-chef-taking-over-from-raymond-blanc-at-le-manoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/he-does-it-with-love-the-32-year-old-chef-taking-over-from-raymond-blanc-at-le-manoir\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He does it with love\u2019: the 32-year-old chef taking over from Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNearly 40 years ago, the French chef helped pioneer garden-to-table cooking at his Oxfordshire restaurant. Now he is passing the baton to Luke SelbyThe new kitchen gardens: meet the UK chefs and restaurants growing their ownIf he\u2019s not in the kitchen, challenging a chef one-third his age to a race to prepare girolle mushrooms, or upstairs on the first floor in his small, book-lined office, Raymond Blanc can often be found in the car park of Le Manoir aux Quat\u2019Saisons, the Oxfordshire restaurant and hotel he created. \u201cEvery lunch, you will see 60% small cars and 40% big cars,\u201d says Blanc, when we meet at Le Manoir on one of the heatwave days of early summer. \u201cEvening, it\u2019s a switch: it\u2019s 60% big cars, but there\u2019s still 40% small cars. And that is the most crucial success of our business.\u201dPerhaps sensing my confusion at how the composition of a car park relates to excellence in gastronomy, the 73-year-old Blanc goes on: \u201cI\u2019m a working-class person. And I wanted always to create an environment that is totally inclusive, where my papa could come once a year, or a guest could come once in a lifetime. Where you don\u2019t have a haughty waiter who looks down on you in a disappointing manner and you just feel your day is going to be totally ruined. It is a place of warmth.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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