France’s most famous butcher has provoked a furious row after claiming that British beef is the best in the world.
Yves-Marie Le Bourdonnec, a celebrity expert who sells expensive organic cuts at four shops in and around Paris, told a documentary that “we have lost the notion in France of what a good steak is”.
“In fact, we simply don’t know what it is any more,” he added. “The best rearers in the world are the British.”
His comments prompted the French butchers’ federation to expel him, denouncing Mr le Bourdonnec as a “detractor of French rearers and . . . a paid-up support of British farmers”.
His relationship with the union had already been under strain after he co-founded The Beef Club, a steak