Anton Mosimann
Anton Mosimann OBE (born February 23, 1947 in Solothurn ) is a Swiss chef .
Life
Mosimann grew up as the son of a couple in Nidau near Biel and completed an apprenticeship as a chef in the Bären restaurant in Twann . After completing his apprenticeship, Mosimann worked in various restaurants in Switzerland, Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, Canada and Sweden as well as on board a cruise ship. In 1975 he went to Great Britain and became head chef at the Dorchester Hotel in London . He was recommended for this post by the Swiss chef Adelrich Furrer, the father of the fashion designer Christa de Carouge . Since 1988 he has been running the Belfry club restaurant in a former Presbyterian church in the London borough of Belgravia .
Mosimann received various awards, including Queen Elizabeth II awarded him the Order of the British Empire in 2004 for his services to British gastronomy. The Gastronomische Akademie Deutschlands e. V. awarded him the “Golden Pen” in 1986 for the work The Great Book of Seafood (Teubner Edition, Füssen).
In 2000 he acquired the Sälischlössli in Olten in order to develop it into a gourmet restaurant under the name of Château Mosimann . He finished this project three years later and has since concentrated on his work at the Belfry again .
On April 29, 2011, he cooked the menu for the wedding of William Mountbatten-Windsor and Catherine Middleton . In June 2016 his museum "The Mosimann Collection - A culinary heritage" will open on the grounds of the hotel management school César Ritz Colleges Switzerland in Le Bouveret .
Web links
- Literature by and about Anton Mosimann in the catalog of the German National Library
- The master chef with a bow tie. Portrait on swissinfo , September 27, 2007.
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Weber: Christa de Carouge - Black on White. Römerhof Verlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-905894-21-9 , p. 20.
- ↑ glanzundgloria.sf.tv: Anton Mosimann cooks for William & Kate - Switzerland: celebrity news, videos and pictures. glanz & gloria , Schweizer Fernsehen, accessed on May 6, 2011.
- ^ Jean-Pierre Kapp: Culinary Museum opened on Lake Geneva - A chef as a gifted collector. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 6, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mosimann, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chef |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Solothurn |