Women of Note - Georgiana Viou - Gets another star from Platform 13

Giorgiana Viou - First woman chef of color to receive a Michelin Star - Nimes, France

Georgiana Viou, the self-taught chef born in Benin, has made vital history as the first female chef of colour in France, to earn a coveted Michelin star for her restaurant, Rouge, in Nîmes, South West France. Her cooking blends the sun-kissed freshness of Mediterranean ingredients with the vibrancy and soulful spices of her West African heritage—what she once described simply as, “a mix of French Mediterranean perfumed with notes recalling my home country.”

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