The Lifetime Achievement Awards
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Joël Robuchon – 2009
A Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Joël Robuchon has long been one of France’s legendary culinary masters. He is renowned for his rigour, skill and passion. In addition to building up a culinary empire, he has taught and inspired many of today’s great chefs…
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Gualtiero Marchesi – 2008
A Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Gualtiero Marchesi was the first Italian chef to win three Michelin stars and at 78 years young, Marchesi is by far Italy’s most renowned chef; having created a string of award-winning restaurants and the culinary philosophy ‘Total Cuisine’, as set out in his seminal book, The Marchesi Code…
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Alice Waters – 2007
A Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Described variously as a visionary, a pioneer, ‘the mother of American cooking’ and ‘the most important figure in the culinary history of North America’, Alice Waters is certainly one of the most influential figures in American cooking of the last 50 years…
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Albert & Michel Roux – 2006
A Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Having put their fraternal bond to the ultimate test for four decades and come through with flying colours, the Roux brothers, Albert and Michel, can truly claim to be lifetime achievers…
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Paul Bocuse – 2005
A Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
When it came to deciding who would receive the inaugural American Express Lifetime Achievement Award, there was only ever one name on the list. Paul Bocuse, more than any other living chef, has come to be seen as an ambassador for French cuisine…