Christian Millau obituary

Food critic and co-founder of the restaurant guide at the heart of the nouvelle cuisine movementIn 1969, Christian Millau, who has died aged 88, founded, with his business partner, Henri Gault, a monthly culinary magazine, Le Nouveau Guide Gault-Millau. Three years later it became an annual guide – Gault & Millau – and challenged the supremacy of the red Michelin guide to the restaurants of France.The pair had spotted a tendency among younger French chefs that they baptised nouve