The Roux family are rightly synonymous with Britain’s gastronomic revolution. Under their watch, this country went from a nation of meat-and-two-veg to one of Francophilia and food-fuelled hedonism.
The sixties were a decade of wonder: the Beatles were singing atop a roof on Saville Row, Concord was taking travellers across the pond at supersonic speed, and in a pokey restaurant on Lower Sloane Street, two brothers were making history in a kitchen called Le Gavroche.
