{"id":2846,"date":"2022-08-22T08:37:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T08:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2022-08-22T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T08:40:00","slug":"from-crime-lord-to-michelin-award-how-a-notorious-marseille-prison-was-the-making-of-a-top-french-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=2846","title":{"rendered":"From crime lord to Michelin award: how a notorious Marseille prison was the making of a top French chef"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He spent 13 years behind bars after smuggling drugs for Mediterranean gangs. Now Krishna L\u00e9ger is one of the country\u2019s most exciting chefs. What made him change his ways?<\/p>\n

K<\/span>rishna L\u00e9ger is confident he is the only person to have smuggled fresh fish into Les Baumettes in Marseille, one of the most notorious prisons in France. With the fish he made bouillabaisse, the famous Marseillais soup. One of his fellow inmates \u2013 also from Marseille \u2013 said it was the best he had ever tasted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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These days, L\u00e9ger serves bouillabaisse on the first Sunday of every month at his restaurant, <\/span>Volver<\/a>, just outside the pretty medieval town of Uz\u00e8s, in the southern French d\u00e9partement of the Gard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}