<Li> Officer of the Legion d'honneur </Li> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.joel-robuchon.net </Td> </Tr> <P> Joël Robuchon (French pronunciation: ​ (ʒɔɛl ʁɔbyʃɔ̃), 7 April 1945--6 August 2018) was a French chef and restaurateur . He was named "Chef of the Century" by the guide Gault Millau in 1989, and awarded the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (France's best worker) in cuisine in 1976 . He published several cookbooks, two of which have been translated into English, chaired the committee for the Larousse Gastronomique, and hosted culinary television shows in France . He operated more than a dozen restaurants in Bangkok, Bordeaux, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, Macau, Monaco, Montreal, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, and New York City, with a total of 31 Michelin Guide stars among them, the most of any chef in the world . </P> <P> Robuchon was born in 1945 în Poitiers, France, one of four children of a bricklayer . He attended the Châtillon - sur - Sèvre seminary in the Deux - Sèvres (currently Mauléoniste), briefly considering a clerical career . In 1960, at the age of 15, he became an apprentice chef at the Relais of Poitiers hotel, starting as a pastry chef . </P>

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