Marc Veyrat

Two years after the death of renowned French chef Paul Bocuse, the Michelin Guide has stripped his flagship restaurant of the coveted three-star ranking it held for half a century, prompting anger and dismay from his culinary peers.              

Some of the world's most famous restaurateurs joined around 1,500 mourners on Feb. 5 at the Swiss funeral of star chef Benoit Violier, who killed himself last weekend.

Michelin-starred French chef Marc Veyrat, chosen to cook for world leaders at the U.N. climate talks in Paris, was on Dec. 18 served a 100,000-euro fine for destroying the forest around his Alpine restaurant.

Health-conscious French chef Marc Veyrat, two-time recipient of a three-star rating from the Michelin Guide, said in an interview with AGERPRES that healthy foods can be tracked by common sense and people must fearlessly fight the large industrial chains that promote genetically-modified organisms (GMO).