Léa Linster

Léa Linster, 2019

Léa Linster (2007)

Léa Linster (born April 27, 1955 in Differdange ) is a Luxembourgish cook , restaurateur , TV cook and author of cookbooks .

Life

Léa Linster (right) with Jacques Santer (left)

After graduating from high school, Léa Linster initially studied law , but in 1982, after the death of her father, took over his inn in Frisingen , about 15 km south of Luxembourg City , and opened it as the “Lea Linster” restaurant. She obtained the Certificat d'aptitude professionnelle cuisinier (professional qualification) and a master’s diploma and sat in with Paul Bocuse , Joël Robuchon and Frédy Girardet . In 1987 her restaurant was awarded one star for the first time by the Michelin Guide . Two years later she won the Bocuse d'Or . In 1991 Linster opened another restaurant in the Grand Duchy, "Das Kaschthaus" in Hellingen .

Since 2001 she has been writing a column for the German women's magazine Brigitte . From 2004 to January 2008, she had a TV show entitled Leas KochLUST on SR TV . In the Saarbrücken edition of the television series Tatort , she appeared in 2006 and 2007 in the episodes From the dream and The dead from the roadside as "Linde landlady". She is also known as an author of cookbooks .

Linster also appears frequently in the program ZDF-Fernsehgarten , and from time to time she also performs the afternoon series Die Küchenschlacht of the ZDF . She was also a frequent guest on the ZDF program Lanz cooks , which has since been discontinued . Her program Kachtipp mam Léa Linster is broadcast on the Luxembourg television RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg . It was in 2013 and 2014. Coach and juror in the Sat.1 - cooking show The Taste with and worked in 2016 and 2018 in this show as Gastjurorin.

Linster is single and has a son, Louis , who was born on August 21, 1990, and to whom she handed over the business in 2019. He cooked himself a star in his first year.

Awards (selection)

• 1983: Grand Prix Mandarine Napoléon
• since 1987: a Michelin star for her Lea Linster restaurant
• 1987: Maître cuisinier as the first woman in Luxembourg
• 1989: Bocuse d'Or as the first and so far only woman in the world

Books

Cookbooks

Léa Linster signs one of her cookbooks (2007)

• Simple and ingenious. The recipes of top chef Lea Linster. Goldmann Verlag , Munich 2002, 160 pages, 200 b / w. Fig., ISBN 3-442-39032-X . (Received the “Best German Chef Cookbook” award at the “ Gourmand World Cookbook Awards ”.)
• Best of Lea Linster. Contributions by Lea Linster, Paul Bocuse , Susie Knoll, Guy Hoffmann, Lea Linster Verlag 2003, 180 p., ISBN 2-9599854-1-9 .
• Awesome all round! New recipes from top chef Lea Linster. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-39084-2 .
• Cookbook Lea Linster - Cuisinière. Foreword by Lea Linster and Paul Bocuse, Ottweiler Druckerei 2006, 184 pages, ISBN 3-938381-04-3 .
• Cooking with love: new recipes by top chef Lea Linster , Diana-Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-28510-1 .
• Just fantastic. New ideas, tips & tricks from the top chef. Heyne Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-28524-8 .
• The yellow of the egg. Chicken-Incredible Recipes Illustrated by Peter Gaymann . Ars vivendi Verlag, Cadolzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86913-426-0
• Wine has to go in! Intoxicating recipes . With illustrations by Peter Gaymann. Ars vivendi Verlag, Cadolzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86913-589-2
• Carrots love butter: a star chef, a doctor and a scientist on traditional cooking knowledge and healthy enjoyment . Together with Gunter Frank and Michael Wink. Albrecht Knaus Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3813507911

Autobiographical

• Lea Linster, Kerstin Holzer: My way to the stars. Out of my life . 1st edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04713-4 .

Movie

• Beyond the stove and lobster. Star chefs private. Documentary, Germany, 2009, 94 min., Book: Anja Gerloff and Ralph Quinke, director: Ralph Quinke, production: Spiegel TV , first broadcast: October 30, 2010 on VOX , table of contents by Spiegel online . Portraits of the master chefs Léa Linster, Karl-Emil Kuntz and Ali Güngörmüş .

literature

• Bettina Flitner : women with visions - 48 Europeans. With texts by Alice Schwarzer . Knesebeck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89660-211-X , pp. 138-141.

Web links

Commons : Léa Linster  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Léa Linster in the catalog of the German National Library
• Léa Linster in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Homepage of Léa Linster

Individual evidence

1. ^ WDR 2, MonTalk: Lea Linster. (MP3; 27.4 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Montalk, moderation: Christine Westermann . WDR 2 , October 22, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 27, 2012 (podcast).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ Brief CV. ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Random House , accessed December 5, 2013 
3. ↑ "Make nice compliments, then it will be even better" . deutschlandfunk.de, December 25, 2019, accessed on May 15, 2020 (Léa Linster in conversation with Katrin Michaelsen).
4. ↑ Uwe Bogen: Why the top chef loves the Swabians. stuttgarter-zeitung.de. January 18, 2020, accessed May 15, 2020.