Anne-Sophie Pic

AnneSophie Pic born 12 July 1969 is a French chef best known for regaining three Michelin stars for her restaurant Maison Pic in southeast France She is the fourth female chef to win three Michelin stars and was named the Best Female Chef by The Worlds 50 Best Restaurants in 2011 She currently holds 10 Michelin stars AnneSophie Pic was born in Valence Drôme in France on 12 July 1969 She is the daughter of chef Jacques Pic and grew up at her familys restaurant Maison Pic Her grandfather Andre Pic was also a chef who was particularly known for a crayfish gratin dish and who first gained the restaurant three Michelin stars in 1934 She initially decided not to follow in their footsteps and instead travelled overseas to train in management She worked in Japan and the United States as an intern for various companies including Cartier and Moët Chandon but found herself drawn back to the restaurant for her passion In 1992 at the age of 23 she returned to Maison Pic to train under her father to become a chef He died three months later and she moved to working the front of the house In 1995 the restaurant lost its third Michelin star feeling she had lost her fathers star spurred her to return to the kitchen In 1997 Pic took control of the restaurant She had no formal training in cooking In 2007 she regained Maison Pics three Michelin stars This was only the fourth time ever that a female chef had achieved three Michelin stars That same year Pic was the only woman on French newspaper Le Figaros list of the top twenty richest chefs in France She opened her second restaurant Restaurant AnneSophie Pic in Lausanne Switzerland It was awarded two Michelin stars in 2009 which it has retained ever since and is located within the BeauRivage Palace hotel In September 2012 she opened her first Parisbased restaurant La Dame de Pic The restaurant has received one Michelin star Pic is married to David Sinapian and has a son named Nathan In 2015 and 2016 Pic was a member of the Prix Versailles judges panel In 2017 Pic opened her first London restaurant also called La Dame de Pic in the Four Seasons Hotel at 10 Trinity Square in the City of London It was awarded a Michelin star within less than a year of opening for the 2018 Michelin Guide A second star followed for the 2020 Guide and both have been retained since In 2018 she appeared as a judge on the France episode and in the finale of The Final Table season 1 In the same year she was profiled in Maya Galluss documentary film The Heat A Kitchen Revolution In 2019 she opened a restaurant also under the name La Dame de Pic in the Raffles Hotel in Singapore It was awarded one Michelin star in the 2022 Guide In June 2020 she and other chefs as well as architects Nobel laureates in Economics and leaders of international organizations signed the appeal in favour of the purple economy Towards a cultural renaissance of the economy published in Corriere della Sera El País and Le Monde At the end of 2020 she opened another restaurant called La Dame de Pic Le 1920 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Megève France It was awarded its first Michelin star in the 2022 Guide Source Article AnneSophie Pic from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30