- Marc Veyrat
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Marc Veyrat 
Born Marc Veyrat
8 May 1950
Annecy, Haute-Savoie, FranceCooking style French Rating(s)- 3 Michelin stars (la Maison de Marc Veyrat, la Ferme de mon Père)
20/20 Gault Millau Rating (la Maison de Marc Veyrat, la Ferme de mon Père)
Current restaurant(s)- la Maison de Marc Veyrat (Veyrier-du-Lac)
la Cozna Vera (Épagny, Brussels, Paris)
Official website marcveyrat.fr Marc Veyrat (born 8 May 1950) is a French chef from the Haute-Savoie region, who specialises in molecular gastronomy and the use of mountain plants and herbs. Although he is hardly known in the American culinary scene, he is one of the most famous chefs in the European restaurant scene.
Veyrat is considered by some to be the best chef in the world. In addition to obtaining a total of six Michelin Stars (three stars for each of his first two restaurants), he is the first cook to get the perfect grade of 20/20 in the Gault-Millau guide, for his two restaurants.
He was the owner of the restaurants la Maison de Marc Veyrat (or l'Auberge de l'Eridan) in Veyrier-du-Lac and la Ferme de mon Père in Megève.
On 24 February 2009, he announced that he would cease all of his activities at la Maison de Marc Veyrat due to his declining health. The hotel is currently being run by his children.
He started a chain of organic "fast-food" restaurants all over France called la Cozna Vera. The first one opened in Annecy in 2008 and was later closed in 2010. He has plans to built other restaurants in Épagny, Brussels, and Paris.
His work was featured on the Discovery Channel's Discovery Atlas:France Revealed.
Cuisine
Marc Veyrat is known for his creativity and use of natural and organic ingredients. He specialises in molecular gastronomy. Rather than using butter, flour, eggs, oil, or cream, he instead uses roots, mountain plants, mountain herbs, and wild flowers harvested in the French Alps.
Bibliography
- Fou de saveurs (1994)
- Herbier gourmand (1997)
- La cuisine paysanne (1998)
- Quatre saisons (à la carte) (2000)
- L'herbier des montagnes – Tout savoir sur les plantes et les fleurs d'altitude (2000)
- Déguster les plantes sauvages (2003)
- L'encyclopédie culinaire du XXIe siècle (2003)
- L'herbier à croquer (2004)
- Le gibier en 80 recettes (2004)
- Herbier gourmand (2004)
- Cuisine paysanne (2005)
External links
Categories:- French chefs
- 1950 births
- Michelin Guide starred chefs
- Living people
- Gastronomy of Rhône-Alpes
- Food and drink biography stubs
- French people stubs
- 3 Michelin stars (la Maison de Marc Veyrat, la Ferme de mon Père)
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