The Perfectionist
Subtitle: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine
Publisher: Gotham
Published: May 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781592401079
Subjects: Gastronomy; Regional & Ethnic - French; Cooks; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Personal Memoirs; Biography/Autobiography; Loiseau, Bernard,; France; Cooking; Fiction / Adventure; 1951-; Biography
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.