About the Author

Raymond Blanc was born in Besan on, France, in 1949. He has never had a cookery lesson but he opened his first restaurant in Oxford in 1977. In 1984, he opened Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons in a beautiful fifteenth-century manor house in Great Milton, near Oxford. Since then, the restaurant has gathered a host of accolades, including two Michelin stars, three Egon Ronay stars and the description of 'Best Restaurant in Great Britain' from The Good Food Guide.