Terence Conran 1931 – 2020. An extraordinary career, #TerenceConran was a visionary restaurateur, designer, and the force that drove the wave of new kitchen talents through the 1980s and onwards.
One little known fact about #TerenceConran’s influence: together with his business partner Joel Kissin, Terence bought about a fascination & establishment of new-style artisan bakeries in Britain (and to some extent around the world) starting in 1991 with the bakery at @DandDLondon’s Le Pont de la Tour. I would go and see head baker Stuart Powell at Le Pont bakery (@thechefbaker), marvel at the set up and only dream to have something like it someday. I only worked as a baker for Terence for effectively “minutes” with chefs @johntorodecooks and his chefs @chrisgalvin8 and @chefmanx. I’d eat as often at the Blueprint Cafe when chef @jeremyleeqv was in marvellous charge. And then working with Richard Whittington on menues and bread tweaking when he was Terence’s fierce consultant.
It was so extraordinary, with hindsight, to have man like Sir Terence and @DandDLondon champion great bread, sourdough, the best possible flour and long-fermentation, simply to have great bread served in his restaurants. Few matched his passion then, even fewer today. A life well lived Sir.
