The Perfectionist
Subtitle: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine
Publisher: Gotham
Published: May 18, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781592402045
Subjects: Gastronomy; Biography / Autobiography; Cooking; Regional & Ethnic - French; Cooking / French; General
First sentence: On the Monday evening of February 24, 2003, a stupefying announcement broke into the 11 P.M. news bulletins throughout French radio and TV: Bernard Loiseau, chef and owner of the Cote d'Or restaurant in the Burgundy town of Saulieu, had been found dead in his home at age fifty-two, an apparent suicide.