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'' (though denied by the film's director,

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). He spent most of his career writing for French daily

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, which he left at the beginning of 2014. He appears in a 2016 episode of the

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documentary series '' Chef's Table'', discussing the cuisine of

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, chef at the restaurant Yam'Tcha in

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