Michel Guérard, a pioneer of low-calorie, full-flavor food, dies at 91. While cooking at his family-run spa in southwestern France, he helped make lighter, brighter dishes a staple of fine dining.

Michel Guérard, who has died aged 91, was, with Roger Vergé, Paul Bocuse and Pierre Troisgros, one of the founding fathers of nouvelle cuisine, the culinary movement that marked a radical shift ...

The chef Michel Guérard in the kitchen of Les Prés d’Eugénie, his spa in Eugénie-les-Bains, France, in 2008. He found a way to drastically pare down calorie counts without sacrificing flavor.

Michel Guérard: When I launched my slimming cuisine back in 1975, it triggered a wave of outrage within the culinary world. I will never forget my friend [chef] Paul Bocuse saying to everyone ...

Michel Guérard, one of the pioneers of France’s la nouvelle cuisine movement and creator of cuisine minceur, died April 19, at the age of 91.

At Les Prés d’Eugénie, a spa resort in southwest France, chef Michael Guérard produces simple, ... Gérald Passedat; Michel Troisgros. Boulud worked for Guérard in 1978.

Michel Guérard invented "slimming cuisine" in the 1970s and continues to stretch culinary boundaries at his three-star restaurant and luxury spa Les Prés d'Eugénie in France's southwest.

Michel Guérard at Les Prés d'Eugénie in 2014. LEA CRESPI / PASCO&CO. A champion of "slimming cuisine" and undoubtedly the most creative, erudite and mischievous incarnation of the nouvelle ...

Chefs and caterers tell me that soup is the most popular of all first courses at the dinner parties they do; all of the soup bowls return to the kitchen clean. Soup, it seems, is universally satisf… ...

Michel Etienne Robert-Guérard was born in Vétheuil, a village on the Seine, on March 27, 1933. He grew up in Pavilly, a small town outside Rouen, where his mother ran the family butcher shop ...

Michel Etienne Robert-Guérard was born in Vétheuil, a village on the Seine, on March 27, 1933. He grew up in Pavilly, a small town outside Rouen, where his mother ran the family butcher shop ...