JEAN-CHRISTOPHE LEBASCLE

 

For me everything started  forty years ago in Brittany, this difficult but oh so endearing land where I was born.

Even if child I didn’t imagine to embrace this career, I was always sensitive to the authentic simplicity of the family meals. So, It is with nostalgia that I remember the lost bread or the roasted goose on the fire of wood that my grandmother prepared for the great occasions.

 

In 1982, I started the "Tour de France" of the houses I dreamed of and so I could approach the "Chefs", men of whom I learned everything: Michel Guérard, Michel Rostang, Marc Meneau and Jean-Pierre Vigato.

 

In 1992, I had the privilege of representing France and its cooking at the Universal Exhibition in Seville (Spain) as chef of the restaurant "Carte de France" within the Pavilion of France.

 

Then, I participated in the design and launch of 2 projects in the Paris region : a 4 * luxury hotel in Roissy  and the restaurant  "l’Appart" Paris 8th while demonstrating at the school of l’école des Cordons Bleu.

 

Since November 1994, I have been managing "Manufacture", a large wellcoming  and authentic house where I let my inspiration run free.

 

In my "little corner of Paris", I concentrated my origins, my memories and I wanted to marry them to all these new sensual, visual, olfative and gustatory emotions that have been mine during my various journeys.

Behind my stoves, I never forget the essential place of the quality of the raw materials without which all the talent of a cook would be pure loss.