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Pierre Koffmann: 'A kind of culinary Pele'
4:00am PST - December 7th, 2018 gordon ramsay - The Guardian (AU)How a French cook became a cornerstone of modern British cuisine When I came to London in 2001, aged 16, Pierre Koffmann was this mythological figure on the restaurant scene, a kind of culinary Pele. It turned out he’s much more important than that – it’s str…