it involved cooking the salmon for 15 seconds on each side in a non-stick pan. The dish was initially received with hostility, but when Robert Courtine of Le Monde called it an "intelligent salmon," it afterwards went on to become their signature dish. In 1972, the brothers were awarded by critics of the Gault Millau with the title "Best Restaurant in the World" award. About her visit in the 1970s, Gael Greene wrote "Brother Pierre in his tall white toque sat playing gin rummy in the middle of the dining room, where the awed pilgrims left over from lunch still nibbled petit fours as we checked in." Early in his career, while visiting China, he picked up what would later be called the tasting menu, which he implemented in the restaurant in the 1970s. Michel Troisgros joined the family business with his father in 1983. A book about his nouvelle cuisine and his brother's was published in 2012. In 2017, he had spent 86 of his 88 years in Roanne, but the family restaurant moved to Ouches in 2017. He set a record by never losing his three stars once he was first awarded them. After his death, Stephen Harris for the Telegraph went so far as to call him "the father of nouvelle cuisine," and that "today's chefs [in 2020] still work in his shadow. Personal life Troisgros was father of Claude Troisgros, a famous restaurateur and TV presenter in Brazil. His son Michel married Marie-Pierre Troisgros, and their sons César and Léo are also cooks working at the family establishment. On 23 September 2020, Troisgros died at home in Le Coteau near Roanne aged 92. References 1928 births 2020 deaths French chefs French restaurateurs Head chefs of Michelin starred restaurants People from Chalon-sur-Saône