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Chef Patrick O Connell of The Inn at Little Washington was among the chefs invited by New York Times food writer and cookbook author Craig Claiborne to his 70th birthday party in Monaco.
Mr. Claiborne, who celebrated his birthday Sept. 4, was asked to compile a list of his favorite chefs in the world to join him in this threeday event at the Hotel de Paris. Mr. O’Connell and his partner, Reinhardt Lynch, were among the guests invited to what is being called !*the dinner of the decade,” according to a spokesman for The Inn at Little Washington.
Guide Micheiin three-star Chef Alain Ducasse of the Louis XV in Monte Carlo is preparing the blacktie birthday dinner in what has been referred to as “Europe’s most opulent restaurant.”
Asked by his host, the Prince of
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