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Robert Allen Zimmerman was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1941. The balladeer, artist and actor who took his stage name from the poet Dylan Thomas – had long been tipped as a potential prize recipient.

People who work and travel around the world were asked by Buzzfeed to tell them about their favorite restaurants on the planet.

The Michelin Stars rating guide is considered the bible for the all gourmet lovers and bon viviers, with a history of food critique spanning over a century. It is something like the Nobel Prize for food. Suffice it to say that many chefs have lost their sleep, and even their minds (literally) over either getting that coveted Michelin Star or retaining it. It is a serious business.

Some of the world's most famous restaurateurs joined around 1,500 mourners on Feb. 5 at the Swiss funeral of star chef Benoit Violier, who killed himself last weekend.

World’s best chef Benoit Violier, 44, has been found dead with a rifle next to him at his home just months after his restaurant was named the best in the world.

Violier ran the Restaurant de l’Hotel de Ville in Crissier, located near Lausanne, which was named the best in the world in December by La Liste.

Michelin-starred French chef Marc Veyrat, chosen to cook for world leaders at the U.N. climate talks in Paris, was on Dec. 18 served a 100,000-euro fine for destroying the forest around his Alpine restaurant.

The first ever gastronomy conference targeting professionals in Turkey, the National Gastromasa Conference, will be held on Nov. 14 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Istanbul's ?i?li district.

Always humble and ever enterprising in life, Francois Michelin is no longer with us.

The 88 year-old Francois held the family company’s reigns for more than half a century, which was enough to turn the medium-sized business into a worldwide colossus of industry which became a hallmark around the globe.

Francois Michelin, who led France's famed tyre company for nearly half a century, died at the age of 88, the group said on April 29. 

PIROT - One of the three workers who have been transferred to Germany for medical treatment after sustaining injuries in the rolling plant of the Tigar Tyres factory in Pirot died on Sunday morning, the company said in a statement.