Emmanuel Renaut (born 26 January 1968) is a French

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, three

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and

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in 2004. A former sous-chef of Marc Veyrat, he then founded his own restaurant ''Flocons de sel'' at Mégève.

Life and career

Born in

Soisy-sous-Montmorency Soisy-sous-Montmorency (, literally ''Soisy under Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, Montmorency'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Val-d'Oise Departments of France, ''département'' located north of Paris, France. History On 7 August 1850, a part ...

in the department of

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, Emmanuel Renaut grew up in the department of

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during trips at

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. He made his

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Chambéry Chambéry (, , ; Arpitan: ''Chambèri'') is the prefecture of the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. The population of the commune of Chambéry was 58,917 as of 2019, while the population of the Chambér ...

with the

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. He joined the CFA of

Laon Laon () is a city in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. History Early history The holy district of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held strategic importance. In ...

in 1984, training in

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and then in

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. He joined the team of the Hôtel Le Lotti and then worked for Christian Constant at the

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as a first cooking assistant. He was then hired temporarily by Marc Veyrat, head chef of the ''Auberge de l'Eridan'' in Veyrier-du-Lac, and became a sous-chef for four years. He then worked with the cooking and pastry chef

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and later in

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where he was for one year the head chef of ''

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''. In 1998, Emmanuel Renaut established himself in Mégève in

and founded his own restaurant ''Flocons de sel''. He received his first Michelin star in 2003, the second one in 2006, and his third in 2012. In 2007, he published ''La Montagne et le cuisinier'' with Isabelle Hintzy and Catherine de Montalembert. In 2012, Emmanuel Renaut was named "Cooking Chef of the Year", succeeding to

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(2011), Gilles Goujon (2010),

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(2009),

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(2008) and

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(2007).

Cooking style

For the

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, Emmanuel Renaut belongs to a "new generation of chef who re-invent the local products with malice", which brings him closer from chef

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. François Simon estimates his cooking style "very close from the Savoyard local products". The chief redactor of the

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Juliane Caspar qualifies his style of "very subtle" and find his compositions very "surprising and harmonious".

Personal life

The family of Emmanuel Renaut is from

Picardy Picardy (; Picard and french: Picardie, , ) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region of Hauts-de-France. It is located in the northern part of France. Hi ...

. His mother Bernadette Clément owns a

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Coucy-lès-Eppes Coucy-lès-Eppes is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Coucy-lès-Eppes station has rail connections to Reims and Laon. Population See also *Communes of the Aisne department The following is a l ...

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''. They have three children.

Books

*Emmanuel Renaut and Catherine de Montalembert, ''La Montagne et le cuisinier'', Aubanel, 2007, 229 pages ()

External links

Official website of the restaurant ''Flocons de Sel''
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