{{Short description|French chef and restaurateur}} {{more citations needed|date=November 2010}} {{Use British English|date=April 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox chef <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox chef/doc --> | name = Fernand Point | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1897|2|25}} | birth_place = Louhans, France | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1955|3|4|1897|2|25}} | death_place = Vienne, France | style = French | education = | ratings = <!-- Michelin stars {{Rating|0|3}}<br>AAA Motor Club {{Rating|0|5}}<br>Mobil {{Rating|0|5}}<br>Good Food Guide {{Rating|0|10}} --> | restaurants = | prevrests = "La Pyramide" in Vienne | television = | awards = | website = }} upright|thumb|Stela on rue Fernand Point, for which the restaurant is named '''Fernand Point''' ({{IPA|fr|fɛʁnɑ̃ pwɛ̃}}, 25 February 1897 – 4 March 1955) was a French chef and restaurateur who is considered the father of modern French cuisine. He founded the restaurant La Pyramide in Vienne near Lyon.
==Early life== Point was born in Louhans, Saône-et-Loire, France. His family kept an inn where he started cooking when he was ten. He moved to Paris and worked at some of its best restaurants before working with Paul Bocuse's father at the {{illm|Hôtel Royal (Évian-les-Bains)|fr|Hôtel_Royal_(Évian-les-Bains)}} in Évian-les-Bains.<ref>{{cite web|website=Chef Simon|title=Fernard Point (1897-1955)|url=https://chefsimon.com/articles/litterature-fernand-point|language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|website=vienne-condrieu.com|title=The great History of Fernand Point and la Pyramide|url=https://www.vienne-condrieu.com/en/7141-the-great-history-of-fernand-point-and-la-pyramide.html | language=fr}}</ref>
==Career== He had received his training with Foyot in Paris, the Bristol Hotel, Paris, the Majestic in Cannes, and the Royal Hotel in Évian-les-Bains. In 1922, he and his family moved to Vienne, a city in southeast France near Lyon, and opened a restaurant. Two years later his father left the restaurant to Fernand, who renamed it La Pyramide.<ref>"On Cooking, Sarah Labensky, 2011</ref>
Point opened Restaurant de la Pyramide when he was 24, about {{convert|20|mi}} south of Lyon in the town of Vienne. The restaurant was awarded three Michelin stars.{{citation needed|date=July 2014}}
==Ma Gastronomie== {{main|Ma Gastronomie}}
His book ''Ma Gastronomie'' was first published in French in 1969. The book includes 200 recipes based on Point's notes. The chef Charlie Trotter described Point's ''Ma Gastronomie'' as the most important cookbook.<ref>[http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/031215_iannolo_trotter.php An Interview with Chef Charlie Trotter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128164526/http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/031215_iannolo_trotter.php |date=28 November 2018 }} Jennifer Iannolo - 15 Dec 2003</ref>
==Publications== * Point, Fernand (2008) ''Ma Gastronomie'', Rookery Press. {{ISBN|978-1-58567-961-4}}
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