Simply Raymond
Channel: British Library
Date: 2021-05-28

Join legendary chef Raymond Blanc and award-winning food-writer Felicity Cloake as Raymond shares a lifetime of stories about food, his love affair with British produce, and talks about his latest cookbook, Simply Raymond: a collection of his favourite home-cooked recipes inspired by his beloved mother, Maman Blanc.

Raymond Blanc OBE is acknowledged as one of the finest chefs in the world. Completely self-taught, his influence on gastronomy is so great that he is the only chef to have been honoured with both an OBE from Britain and the Légion d'honneur from France. His beautiful hotel restaurant, Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, has retained two Michelin stars for 37 years and was voted Best Hotel and Best Food Hotel of the Year by The Caterer's Hotelier Top 100 Awards. Raymond has written more than 10 books and presented many television shows. He is honorary President of The Sustainable Restaurant Association and Vice President of Garden Organic.

Felicity Cloake is a freelance journalist and the award-winning author of the Guardian’s long-running 'How to Make the Perfect…' column, the New Statesman’s food column, and six books. The most recent is the Fortnum & Mason award-shortlisted One More Croissant for the Road, a culinary odyssey around France on two wheels, picking up recipes en route. She lives in London with a very greedy cairn terrier, but cannot wait to be back in her beloved France eating croissants and couscous.