White Georges

History of the White family

The mother White, White Elisa

In 1872, Jean Louis White, the back large father of Georges Blanc is installed as café owner Limonadier and merchant of coal on the place of the market of the small village of Vonnas in the middle of the Bresse, with the doors of the Burgundy, the Vallée of the Rhone and the Franche-Comté. Men of the family, Jean Louis, Adolphe, and Jean Blanc are Charbonnier S and Limonadier S of wire father until in 1975

In 1902, Adolphe, the son, marry Élisa Gervais born in 1883 and succeed his/her parents. Elisa settles with the furnaces and brings the celebrity to the Blanc inn by her great talent of cooker under the name of “the Blanc mother”. She exclusively cooks the simple, fresh products and of great quality of the soil bressan, the Volaille S, chickens of Bresse to the cream, Poularde S, Coq S, Pigeon S, Canard S, Escargot S, thighs of Grenouille S and crayfish S of the Dombes to grasses, truffles, Morille S and crepes vonassienne, cream and Beurre etc been useful with honesty, generosity, love and perfection. Celebrities as the president Edouard Herriot are accustomed of his table

In 1930, the Touring Club of France decrees with the Blanc mother the first price of its culinary contest. Three years later, in 1933, it is with the turn of the elected prince of the gastronomes, Curnonsky, to declare the mother Blanc " better cooker of the world " .

White Paulette

In 1934, Jean Victor White called Jean (1906 - 1977), White oldest son of the mother, marries Paule Tisserand called Paulette (born in 1910), the girl of the baker and confectioner of the Ferdinand place of Vonnas. White Paulette, helped by his/her Elisa mother-in-law, takes the continuation and preserves the same traditional specialities and all the prestigious notoriety of the Blanc inn

White Georges

In 1943, the January 2nd, birth of Georges White, wire of Jean and Paulette, small son of Adolphe and Elisa and back small son of Jean Louis White to Borough-in-Bresse in the Ain. It has an older sister born in 1933. His/her large mother Elisa (the mother White) dies in her residence with Vonnas in 1949 66 years old whereas it is 6 years old

George Blanc does not have really special motivations for the trade of cook. He dreams of aviation, voyages and adventure. In 1962 it leaves major promotion of the very famous hotel school of Thonon-the-Baths in Haute-Savoie at the edge of the Lac Léman. It makes its training course of hotel school like Steward at Air France and travels to the four corners of the world during one season of summer.

In 1965, after having attended some large houses, and having made its Military service it joined the family inn and works at the sides of his/her Paulette mother whom it succeeds in 1968 the 25 years age. He is the first man to take the orders of the furnaces in the Blanc family. He inherits an inn " traditional " that it makes evolve/move with its culinary genius in kitchen of elite and news, lighter with less butter and of cream starting from the beginning of the Années 1970. It transforms the inn of its ancestors into luxurious fashionable country inn of a great refinement, with multiple equipment of comfort, of relaxation and leisures. It thoroughly creates one of the five best cellars of the world with 130.000 bottles in more than 3000 different names starting from personal visits in the wine growers.

In 1970, it is received third of the contests of best the Sommelier S of France and finalist with the contest of the " Better workman of France " with Paris in 1976.

In 1981, it is the dedication: Georges Blanc obtains prestigious third star of the guide Michelin and " titrates it; cook of the year " by the famous gastronomical guide of reference Gault-Millau. In 1985, new dedication: it obtains the extremely rare note of 19,5/20 with the Gault-Millau; it had not been reached.

In 1985 it plants a vineyard of 17 ha, with Azé, in the Mâcon are born in Burgundy where it vinifies to him even its own wine and produces 150.000 bottles per annum, with four different wines: the flower of Azenay (70% of its production) in Mâcon villages, the white of Azenay (20%) in Burgundy, crude of Azenay (10%) by creaming Burgundy, and the white of White while sparkling.

In 1990 White Georges, buys the coffee-grocer-bakery of the Charvet-Guyennet family to open the Old Inn : the counterpart of the inn of its great-grandparents at the beginning of last century or it posts a chart of traditional gastronomy Bressane. It also buys seventeen houses around its restaurant in the center of Vonnas and creates its “greedy village” which it restores in architecture with Colombage bressane with hotels, restaurant, inn, shops, heliport, golf, etc with its name and in the name of “the Art of the good food”. All the center of the village belongs to him.

At the time of the construction of the highway A40 Mâcon, Geneva, Chamonix, he asks a direct exit to serve the small village of Vonnas and his hotel complex between Mâcon and Borough-in-Bresse. He obtains this special favor of an amount of 2,3 million euro.

In 1996, it belongs to the cooks of the G7 to Lyon for which it cooks the chicken sauce foie gras with crystallized garlic , become since one of its receipts headlights of the chart of its restaurant.

Today, Frederic, wire which it had with its ex-wife are in kitchen with their father and ensure the family perenniality of this complex of internationally recognized restaurants which make rimer tradition and creation with greedy poems. A fore-mentioned little girl Lara was born on May 30th, 2007 from a new union with Sally.

Georges Blanc is with the head of a flourishing company moreover 200 employees with a turnover of approximately 22 million euros and a wage bill of almost 8 million euros.

HONORARY DISTINCTIONS:

Officer of the Legion of Honor 10/8/99
Officer in the National order of the Merit 8/2/93
Commander of the Agricultural Merit 1993
Knight of the Academic Palms 2002
Commander of Arts and the Letters 2004

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