Summary

Ludo Lefebvre’s French accent hasn’t thinned much since the Burgundian’s arrival in Los Angeles three decades ago. Within a year of joining L’Orangerie, then the city’s finest temple of haute cuisine, in the mid-’90s, he had become its head chef at 25 years old, serving the likes of Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson.

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