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Categories: American chefs | Restauranteurs | Journalists | Cookery writers Robert Carrier (chef)Robert Carrier (born November 10, 1923) is a chef, restauranteur and cookery writer.
LifeBorn in the United States, Robert Carrier moved to Europe during the Second World War. After running a magazine, worked in broadcasting and public relations he became a journalist. He lived in France and Italy before moving to London in 1953 and in 1957 he wrote his first article on food, which he sold to Harper's Bazaar. He was soon writing regularly for the magazine before becoming a contributor to Vogue and then writing a weekly column for the colour supplement of the Sunday Times. This column brought him celebrity, which he used to promote his first cookery books and a set of recipe cards. Assured of publicity, Carrier opened an eponymous restaurant in Camden Passage, Islington, London in 1967 and then developed an international chain of cookshops. In 1971 he saw a full-page advertisement in Country Life for Hintlesham Hall in Suffolk and bought it, unsurveyed, for £32,000. He planned to renovate it slowly as a country retreat but, realising its vulnerability and near dereliction with rotten floors and ceilings, he decided to save it all immediately. He employed 60 people to restore the house and opened it as a hotel and restaurant in August 1972. He also revived the Hintlesham Festival . A few years later Carrier met a woman who lived near his Paris apartment. He thought her a remarkable cook but a poor business woman so when she got into financial difficulties over non-payment of tax he offered to set her up as a cookery teacher at Hintlesham if she would learn to speak English. He invested about £300,000 converting the 16th century outbuildings into a modern school. The school had a double auditorium and two classrooms each with 12 cooking stations. The woman never learnt English so he ran the school himself. He presented beginners and intermediate courses. The mornings were devoted to generic cookery skills and in the afternoons students cooked recipes from the Hintlesham Hall restaurant menu. The school attracted people from throughout the anglophone world but Carrier was disappointed to find that many were attracted more by his celebrity than by an interest in cookery. He found the work onerous and dull. In the late 1970s Carrier began presenting a television series Carrier's Kitchen and from this flowed a substantial magazine partwork published weekly by Marshall Cavendish between 1981 and 1983. He closed Hintlesham Hall in 1982 and went to live in France and Morrocco. On January 19, 1983 Carrier was the subject of the UK television show This Is Your Life. Carrier lived in Marrakesh for several months of each year and used his Morroccan experiences as the basis for another cookbook in 1987. He lives in Provence where he spends his retirement painting pictures. Television
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