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But for the clammy embrace of an elderly priest, the culinary fortunes of this country might never have been the same. As a boy of 14, Albert Roux was training for the priesthood in his native France when an unholy encounter with a smelly man of the cloth saw him switch from clerical robes to chef s whites. It was the most providential change of direction for his adopted country, Britain, whose eating habits he would change for ever. It was also a wise decision. I would have made a very bad priest because I am was a philanderer, said the restaurateur, who has died aged 85. ....
Last modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 23.36 EST Albert Roux, who has died aged 85, did more to encourage and foster Britain’s restaurant sector than any other chef working in the UK. The roll-call of names that passed through the kitchens of his Mayfair restaurant, Le Gavroche, which he opened with his late brother Michel in 1967, is the classic who’s who of the culinary cheffing firmament. It includes Marco Pierre White, Gordon Ramsay, Pierre Koffmann, Phil Howard, Marcus Wareing and Rowley Leigh, each of whom in turn passed on what they had learned from Albert to so many others. He was firmly in the business of unapologetic luxury. “We knew nothing of the British indifference to food,” he once told me, of his early years in Britain, “because we had only ever cooked for the rich.” Both brothers had arrived in the country from Paris, as private chefs for the aristocracy, Michel for the Rothschilds, Albert for the Cazalets. It was their employers’ money and contacts ....
Comment Albert Roux s legacy lives on in restaurants across the UK – everyone wanted a slice of his magic With his brother Michel, the chef and restaurateur kick-started a rebirth of fine-dining restaurants in this country Albert Roux, who has died at the age of 85 Credit: PA By the time Marco Pierre White chanced his arm at a job at Le Gavroche in 1981, its co-founder Albert Roux, who has died at the age of 85, was a well-established figure in the culinary firmament. Indeed the restaurant had just moved from its original premises in Lower Sloane Street to Upper Brook Street in swanky Mayfair. But still at the stove was Albert, who had opened Le Gravroche in 1967 with his brother Michel, who predeceased him in March last year. ....