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While Michael Pollan and Alice Waters deliver sermons on the importance of local eating, legendary chef Michel Bras has been humbly living and breathing by this philosophy before it ever landed on a bookstore shelf.
By Marissa Sertich – Photo by Mads Eneqvist

There are chefs we know because of the Food-Network and then, there are chefs we know because they are extraordinary.

Michel Bras is a chef you should know despite his absence from mainstream television. The more I discover about Michel Bras, the more I think,”This man is the Buddha of food.”  And good food is the mantra.

While Michael Pollan and Alice Waters deliver sermons on the importance of local eating, Michel Bras has been humbly living and breathing by this philosophy before it ever landed on a bookstore shelf.

Like a poet who paints pictures with words, Michel Bras uses the plate as a canvas and the ingredients as a medium to tell a love story about hi