Living legend Michel Guérard is receiving a Special Award of Honour at La Liste 2023 recognizing his tremendous influence on the culinary world. Chef Guérard is most notably one of the founders of nouvelle cuisine, and the inventor of cuisine minceur. Chef Guérard was the first great chef to work with the food industry, one of the first great chefs to open a bistro, he launched in 1996 with his Ferme Thermale the wave of spas that has since spread to hotels all over Europe, he was one of the first chefs to buy a vineyard (Château de Bachen), opened a second discreet hotel on the Atlantic coast - and remained faithful to his slimming cuisine. If there's a recipe for success in Michel Guérard's life and cooking, it's that just when other colleagues are putting their feet up and basking in deserved glory, he goes back to the drawing board, questions what he's accomplished - and simply writes another act.