Michael Roux Snr – cuisine as high art

Michel Roux Sr, the chef’s chef, who along with his brother Albert brought French classical cuisine to the UK in the 1960s, first with Le Gavroche and then the Waterside Inn, has died.
He was born 19 April 1941 to a feckless father, a third generation charcutier, who abandoned his family young. Michel, aged 14, followed his elder brother into the food business, starting as a pâtissier and moving on to chef for one of the Rothschild family.
The two brothers started Le Gavroche in the