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Marc Fosh

British chef

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ20978000 ↗
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Marc Fosh (born 14 August 1963) is a British chef who has lived and worked in Spain for over twenty years and is now based in Palma de Mallorca. His eponymous restaurant, Marc Fosh, gained a Michelin star in 2002. The restaurant is located in the hotel Convent de la Missio in Palma. The restaurant opened to positive reviews and has become one of Palma’s premiere culinary destinations.

In 2019 Fosh published a cookery book entitled Modern Mediterranean: Sun-drenched recipes from Mallorca and beyond.

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Fosh, Marc.

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“Marc Fosh” enters the record as british chef. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Marc, Fosh and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963, 2002, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1963-08-14. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Marc, Fosh and British.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q20978000. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1963, 2002 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marc Fosh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.