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French chef

Yves Thuriès (born June 5, 1938) is a French cooking and pastry chef, twice Meilleur Ouvrier de France.^[1]

Life and career

Early life and training

Yves Thuriès was born in the village of Lempaut in the department of Tarn.

He began at age fourteen his training in pastry. At age 17, he prepared a CAP (Certificat d'Aptitude Professionnelle) in Toulouse and began his journeyman years.

In 1958, he went to Algeria as a conscript.

Les apologies yves thuries biography

In Hussein Dey near Algiers, he became a chief of section. In Béchar, he was named in charge of the Officers Mess.

In 1968, Monsieur Jantou from Toulouse was the last employer of Yves Thuriès. He owned a pastry shop in Gaillac that he decided to sell to his trained worker, that would give him the opportunity to establish himself definitely.

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It was a period of contests and prices. It was also the beginning of the writing of his encyclopedia Le livre de recettes d'un Compagnon du Tour de France. Ten years later,