The Swiss celebrity chef Daniel Humm (44) is doing well again after a small crisis of meaning. His “Eleven Madison Park” in New York – voted the world’s best restaurant in 2017 – is running at high speed, and he has just opened another restaurant in London with “Davies and Brook”. As is often the case with creative men, there is a new love behind this success. With a better known name than himself: Laurene Powell Jobs (56), widow of Steve Jobs (1955-2011), is one of the 50 richest people with a fortune of around $ 20 billion. Powell Jobs and the Apple co-founder have been married since 1991 and have three children together.
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Humm, who grew up in Strengelbach AG, has been with the US entrepreneur for one and a half years. In a Gault Millau interview, he speaks in detail about their relationship: “Female energy is important to me. Women are more sophisticated than we are men. And finding myself led me to Laurene. » Cupid’s arrow struck immediately. “When we were introduced to each other by chance, I knew that I had met an exceptional person,” enthuses the restaurateur.
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«Laurene ensures that I don’t stop as a cook»
At the beginning, however, it was not clear to him who he was looking at. «But it was as if we had known each other forever. And Laurene helped me to be even more myself. That inspires my creativity and ultimately also ensures that I don’t stand still as a cook. » However, his partner to approach money would never have been an option: «It was important for me not to do just that! This is my company, I built it up. Actually, it’s actually insulting to me if you assume that I would be tolerated somehow. I have never taken the easier route in my life. » At the age of 14, Humm dropped out of school and started an apprenticeship as a cook. He received his first Michelin star at the Gasthof zum Gupf in Rehetobel AR before emigrating in 2003.
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«It is important to feel at home in a common place»
What is important to a free spirit like him in a relationship? «Well, it’s about partnership, spirituality, a shared sense of beauty, about family and about feeling at home with each other, but also in a common place. Laurene showed me pages of a partnership that I didn’t even know existed. »
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