Michelin chef Andreas Mavrommatis dies, aged 69

By Daphne Prodromou

Andreas Mavrommatis was the first person who spoke to me on the very first day I set foot in the vast and chaotic Jussieu amphitheatre in Paris in 1979.

First lecture: psychoanalysis in literature. I still remember the awe and the fear. I had never seen an amphitheatre before, I didn’t know what psychoanalysis was, and I barely even knew what literature was. My French was, to put it mildly, terrible – just like Andreas’ at the time, even though he had arrived in Paris two years earlier.