THE man credited with popularising crème brûlée among American diners and the owner of the iconic New York City restaurant Le Cirque has been named the recipient of the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, known as the Oscars of the food world.

Restaurateur and New York personality Sirio Maccioni joins Cecilia Chiang, Wolfgang Puck, Jacques Pépin and Alice Waters as the latest lifetime achievement recipient, whose body of work is deemed to have had a positive, long-lasting impact on the way Americans eat and think about food.

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