It's not often the passing of a chef is mourned by the country's president, but French patisserie legend Gaston Lenotre's death yesterday at the age of 88 was commented on by the country's premier Nicholas Sarkozy.
He said: "He succeeded, with his talent and his creativity, his rigour and his high standards, in raising patisserie to the rank of an art,"
Widely recognised as one of France's best ever pastry chefs, Lenotre was instrumental in the devolpment of patisserie as an art, using less flour and sugar and more creams, mousses and fruit flavours.
Paul Bocuse said the patisserie chef was the Christian Dior of the culinary world.
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