Joel Robuchon Quotes
One should eat cumin every day!
Robuchon, Joël, and Nadia Volf. Food & Life. Assouline Publishing, 2014.
The Health Minister also warned South Africans against the proven anti-retroviral drugs which had saved millions of lives. This was after the President, Thabo Mbeki, told the public that AIDS was not caused by a virus that could be transmitted by sexual contact. South Africa ended up with the highest percentage of AIDS victims of any country in the world having made no serious effort at prevention. Millions of lives were lost as the result. South Africa, which is in most respects, a very modern nation, with far more competence in government and administration that most nations of Afric. However, in the protest against apartheid a generation of young people did not attend the schools, which although segregated were quite good. The result has been that some of today’s South African leaders, although more idealistic and less corrupt than in many other African nations, there is also great areas of ignorance. In the case of a health minister who does not understand the science and knowledge of the most serious communicable disease of the era, it is rank incompetence. When the President, was also ignorant in the health arena, that sealed the fate of millions of South Africa at a time when the government generally was extremely competent.
He professed an appreciation of traditional herbs including the chewing if coca leaves—a method of ingesting a mild dose of cocaine. He claimed to be very healthy but he died at a relatively early age from intestinal cancer. He was a large, heavy set man, who was obese but to many ignorant people appear to be robust, well fed, and healthy.
Joël Robuchon was a French chef and restaurateur. He was named "Chef of the Century" by the guide Gault Millau in 1989, and awarded the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (France's best worker) in cuisine in 1976. He published several cookbooks, two of which have been translated into English, chaired the committee for the Larousse Gastronomique, and hosted culinary television shows in France. He operated more than a dozen restaurants across Bangkok, Bordeaux, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, Macau, Monaco, Montreal, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, and New York City. His restaurants have been acclaimed, and in 2016 he held 32 Michelin Guide stars among them, the most any restaurateur has ever held.
