Joyce Molyneux

{{Short description|British chef (1931–2022)}}

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Joyce Molyneux (17 April 1931 – 27 October 2022)[https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/oct/28/joyce-molyneux-obituary Joyce Molyneux obituary], theguardian.com. 28 October 2022.{{cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/1jeTomKg4R1ntqsktlbuFfFmOjU/appointments |title=Joyce MOLYNEUX - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House) |website=Beta.companieshouse.gov.uk |access-date=27 April 2016}} was a British chef and restaurateur, who became one of the first women to receive a Michelin star.{{cite news|author=Bob Granleese |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/sep/28/joyce-molyneux-female-chef-michelin |title=Joyce Molyneux: 'I just loved cooking' | Life and style |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=27 April 2016}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/joyce-molyneux-obituary-6vfzh7r5w|title=Joyce Molyneux obituary|date=31 October 2022 |via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}

Writing in The Telegraph in 2003, Jan Moir said "Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the chef, Joyce Molyneux, was at the forefront of the growth of modern British cooking".{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/restaurants/3306538/Are-you-ready-to-order-This-week-The-Carved-Angel.html |title=Are you ready to order? This week: The Carved Angel |publisher=The Daily Telegraph |date=19 July 2003|access-date=27 April 2016}}

Molyneux worked in just three restaurant kitchens, Mulberry Tree in Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1950s, Hole in the Wall in Bath in the 1960s, and for 25 years at The Carved Angel in Dartmouth, Devon until her retirement in 1999.

In 1959 she met Stephen Rodríguez-García, who was working at the Mulberry Tree as a waiter. He became her partner until his death in 1994.