Bidspirit auction | Pair of Michel Roux Culinary

Pair of Michel Roux Culinary Institute and Michigan State University Honors - Pair of framed honors presented to liquor executive Michel Roux. Includes a 1991 Michigan State University honorary faculty member certificate recognizing his contributions to hospitality, and a Culinary Institute of America display commemorating Roux as commencement speaker on June 23, 1993, with photographs, patch, plaque, and medal presentation. Measurements: 20” x 25” and 15” x 12”. Weight: 6.5 lbs From the collection of Michel Roux, the liquor icon. One of Mr. Roux’s signature spirits at Crillon was absinthe, the anise-flavored spirit known for its popularity among 19th-century artists like van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. It was banned by the United States in 1912 amid concerns that wormwood, one if its ingredients, which contained thujone, caused hallucinations. In 2000 Mr. Roux introduced a legal absinthe, Absente, which used a sister botanical, Southern wormwood, with only trace amounts of thujone.