Andrée Rosier (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁozje], born 20 November 1978) is a French chef, Meilleur Ouvrier de France and one star at the Guide Michelin.
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Born | 20 November 1978 (1978-11-20) (age 43) Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France |
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Andrée Rosier was born in Bayonne[1] in a family of farmers from the Pays Basque. She became passionate in cooking during her childhood and started in 1994 a hotel training in Biarritz. After her final exam, she began her career in 1998 as a cooking assistant at the Villa Eugénie of the Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz.[1] She pursued in 2000, still as a cooking assistant, in the three starred restaurant Louis XV in Monaco with Alain Ducasse.[1] She then became a sous-chef in 2001 at the restaurant La Chèvre d'Or in Èze, Alpes-Maritimes with the two starred chef Philippe Labbé,[1] and from 2004 to 2008, she is hired as a sous-chef at the restaurant L'Hippocampe of the Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz with Jean-Marie Gautier.[1][2]
Andrée Rosier became in 2007 and only at the age of 28, the first woman to receive the title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France.[2][3][4]
In 2008, she founded her own restaurant Les Rosiers located in Biarritz, where she works with her husband Stéphane.[5] She received her first Michelin star in 2009.