Concours National de Cuisine Artistique

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Nespresso’s partnership in exquisite gastronomy continues to flourish with the "Concours National de Cuisine Artistique", now in its fifth year. This year’s CNCA event took place April 1-2 in Paris. After five-and-a-half hours of competition, the CNCA jury led by Joël Robuchon awarded top honors to Philippe Mille, the 34-year-old “chef adjoint” from the Meurice hotel’s restaurant in Paris. Mille will go on to represent France in the Bocuse d’Or Europe contest July 1-2 in Stavanger, Norway, and in the Bocuse d’Or World Cuisine Contest in Lyon next January. “I’ve always been involved with cooking,” Mille told the press a few months before his victory. “My grandmother, who made her pots-au-feu on an old wooden stove, taught me to love good ingredients. I wanted to become a chef to rediscover the smells of her kitchen.”