More than just an autobiography of the most famous French chef resident in Britain, this book also contains an important recipe section. Beginning with his early life in France in the 1940s, the book tells of Roux's move to England and his subsequent success.
Three-star chef Michel Roux was apprenticed at 14, at a grand patisserie in Paris. In 1967, he and his brother Albert came to London and opened Le Gavroche - an overnight success. He cooked the Queen's 70th birthday dinner and was the first non-Russian to prepare a banquet at the Kremlin since the Russian Revolution.