1. Thomas Aloysius Keller was born on October 14,1955 and is an American chef, restaurateur and cookbook author.
16 Facts About Thomas Keller
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Thomas Keller is the only American chef to have been awarded simultaneous three-star Michelin ratings for two different restaurants.
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Keller's mother was a restaurateur who employed Thomas as help when her cook got sick.
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Under Henin's study, Keller learned the fundamentals of classical French cooking.
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Thomas Keller worked alone with the couple's grandmother as prep cook.
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Thomas Keller has joked in the past that the motivation for Bouchon's opening was to give him somewhere to eat after work at the French Laundry.
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On January 26,2004, Thomas Keller opened his restaurant Bouchon in Las Vegas.
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On February 16,2004, Thomas Keller's much-anticipated Per Se restaurant opened in the Time Warner Center complex in New York under the helm of Thomas Keller's Chef de Cuisine, Jonathan Benno.
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Originally intended to be a temporary project while Thomas Keller planned his lifelong dream restaurant for the location, serving hamburgers and wine, he decided to make ad hoc permanent and find a new location for the hamburger restaurant due to its popularity.
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Recently, Thomas Keller started marketing a line of signature white Limoges porcelain dinnerware by Raynaud called Hommage Point that he helped and a collection of silver hollow ware by Christofle.
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Thomas Keller has attached his name to a set of signature knives manufactured by MAC.
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Thomas Keller is the president of the Bocuse d'Or US team and was responsible for recruiting and training the 2009 candidates.
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In 1999, Thomas Keller published The French Laundry Cookbook, which he considers his definitive book on cuisine.
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Thomas Keller is featured in "My Last Supper" by Melanie Dunea.
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Thomas Keller served as a consultant for the 2007 Pixar animated film Ratatouille, allowing the producer to intern in the French Laundry kitchen and designing a fancy layered version of ratatouille, "confit byaldi", for the characters to cook.
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Thomas Keller is frequently referenced in the restaurant workplace comedy-drama The Bear, with Thomas Keller making a special guest appearance as himself in the Season 3 episode "Forever".