Thirst class Alsace

No joking...it IS him," my friend insisted. But I wasn't convinced. From where we were sitting we could see right into the kitchen and she was sure it was Gordon Ramsay running the show.

- Lawrence Goldsmith

And because we were in a two Michelin star restaurant Jy's in Colmar, France, enjoying an exquisite seven-course meal paired with local wines, it wasn't beyond the realms of possibility that it could be the angry TV chef doing the cooking. But it turned out to be a chef called Jean-Yves Schillinger who was the spitting image of