{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"HUNGRY.","title":"Why You Have To Think Differently to Win a Michelin Star in 2026 - Emily Roux","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/c53b4679\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6166,"description":"This week on Hungry: Emily Roux reflects on building Caractère with her husband Diego Ferrari, earning its Michelin star, and learning that excellence depends on patience, consistency and a tightly connected team. She shares lessons from working in Paris, Monaco, Japan and alongside leading chefs, revealing how curiosity, adaptability and deep immersion shaped her cooking.The conversation explores the Roux family legacy, her childhood inside Le Gavroche, the assumptions that come with a famous surname and her determination to establish herself independently. Emily also discusses the realities behind restaurant ownership — rent negotiations, staffing, motherhood, difficult conversations and the financial pressure of surviving Covid.From London’s restaurant boom and Japan’s devotion to ingredients to the importance of sauces, crockery and customer experience, Emily explains how Caractère blends classical foundations with a lighter, more contemporary identity — and why good things, including Michelin stars, take time.\nON THE MENU:\n00:00:00 Intro\n00:01:05 Why Michelin Success Took Seven Years\n00:08:01 How Two-Star Chefs Think\n00:16:34 Inside a No-Shortcuts Kitchen\n00:21:00 Why Caractère Rewrote the Tasting Menu\n00:32:07 The Brutal Reality of Restaurant Rent\n00:38:02 Japan, France and Britain Compared\n00:46:54 What Le Gavroche Taught Emily Roux\n00:53:06 Can Caractère Earn Two Michelin Stars?\n01:03:08 The Woman Behind the Roux Dynasty\n01:08:22 Motherhood Versus Restaurant Guilt\n01:11:40 Growing Up Inside Le Gavroche\n01:15:56 Why Hard Conversations Build Better Leaders\n01:20:43 Escaping the Roux Nepotism Label\n01:27:41 How Covid Nearly Ended Everything\n01:34:07 Why Good Decisions Need Time\n01:36:05 Michel Roux’s Best Advice\n01:38:14 Turning Criticism Into Better Leadership\n============================================== \n♨️Still bloody HUNGRY? Course ya are. Each week I spend 15 hours writing my newsletter. It’ll take you 5 mins to read. Full of wisdom from the biggest...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/gxmV4UzMdxQXxd72h-fgEanMz6IG37j1u683zTmU0ac/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85ZGI4/Y2FkNjcwNmEwMDNm/YWUwOTcyZTM0YzYw/YWU3My5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}