He was class president, football star, holder of a state track record and, he said, boyfriend of the school's best-looking girl.
Yet for all the veneration of Mademoiselle D - a double Michelin star holder in France and one of the planet's top-ranked female chefs - it is still the service rather than the cooking that dominates.
Poke a hole in the foil cardboard with the tail of your star holder.
Pull the tail of the star holder through the foil cardboard.
Although Valencian chefs such as Michelin star-holder Enrique Medina are making a name for themselves, I was keen to discover what the locals were eating.
If so unmitigated a monstrosity would be an achievement anywhere, let alone in central London, the involvement as executive chef of Atul Kochhar – a Michelin star-holder at Benares – allows it to slip the bonds of the merely surreal and suggest a malign biblical miracle.
A great number of well known chefs have been trained by one or other of the Roux brothers, with Michel estimating in 2010 that "Half of the Michelin star-holders in Britain come from either my brother's kitchen or my kitchen".
Michelin awarded Crenn's renowned Bay Area restaurant, Atelier Crenn, previously a two-star holder, with the coveted third star.
The agreement calls for Firstar shareholders to receive 0.76 share of the combined company for each share of Firstar common stock, while Star Banc holders will retain one share in the combined company for each Star Banc share.
The practice has paralleled his rise from reality TV star to holder of the nation's highest elected office, according to an analysis of his social media activity.
The £21m New Art Gallery, Walsall, the first major commission for the young design team Caruso St John, has been widely praised as a model of popular modern design - the recorded voice in the lifts is that of local boy and Slade star Noddy Holder - and has been credited with a mini urban renaissance in its formerly run-down canalside district.
