Fernand Point

In 1922, he and his family moved to Vienne, a city in southeast France near Lyon, and opened a restaurant.

Two years later his father left the restaurant to Fernand, who renamed it La Pyramide.

[3] Point opened Restaurant de la Pyramide when he was 24, about 20 miles (32 km) south of Lyon in the town of Vienne.

[citation needed] His book Ma Gastronomie was first published in French in 1969.

The chef Charlie Trotter described Point's Ma Gastronomie as the most important cookbook.