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"I found it striking that chef Alan Geaam’s eponymous Paris restaurant earned a one-star Michelin in 2018; Geaam emigrated from Lebanon two decades ago, got his start in France washing dishes while he was homeless at 19, is largely self-taught, and told AFP, "I never thought the Michelin would be interested in someone like me, who was self-taught, who had to sleep in the street at 19 and who began as a dishwasher." - Chris Fuhrmeister