The great French culinary master Gaston Lenô tre (1920 2009) opened his first pastry shop with his wife Colette in Normandy in 1945, and another in Paris a decade later, before founding É cole Lenô tre with his son Alain in 1971, which has trained the world s leading pastry chefs. Lenô tre Paris is a culinary empire from restaurants and catering, to an international network of bakeries and culinary education centres it embodies French savoir vivre and savoir faire. First published in French, this classic reference has been translated into English, German, Japanese, and Danish. Two of Lenô tre s children participated in this updated edition: Sylvie Gille-Naves, who developed several cookbooks with her father, along with Alain Lenô tre and his wife Marie, who together founded the Culinary Institute Lenô tre in Houston, Texas, ranked as the best college for culinary arts in America by Niche.
